The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Honey was similarly associated with the gods in ancient India. In the 1,028 sacred hymns of the Vedic scriptures dating from 1500 BC, many frequently mention honey (madhu in Sanskrit) and claim that ...

Welcome to your month-by-month Egyptian Mythology Reading Challenge for 2026: a structured, immersive journey through gods, mortals, magic, and myth.

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

Journey to the majestic temples of Abu Simbel, carved into the Nubian cliffs more than three thousand years ago by Pharaoh Ramses II, and discover the enduring tribute he built for his beloved Queen ...

Who knew that ancient Egypt was full of mysteries and weird facts that continue to puzzle people to this very day?

Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked ...

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything. Stargate began in 1994 as a single big-screen adventure starring Kurt ...

Ancient Egyptian deities were often depicted in the form of animals. The goddess Isis was sometimes shown as a cow, and her son Horus, the god of kingship, took a falcon’s form. But the identity of ...

This two-foot-tall basalt statue depicts Udjahorresnet, an Egyptian courtier who held high positions under the final two pharaohs of the 26th Dynasty (664–526 B.C.) and the first two pharaohs of the ...

Here's some spooky Friday the 13th superstitions, origin stories and more to keep you on your toes today.