Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

Girsu, known as one of the world’s oldest cities, was once revered as the sanctuary of the Sumerian heroic god Ningirsu ... containing cuneiform symbols, an ancient writing system, record ...

At a rock art site located on the western bank of the Nile River, an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a […] ...

According to its creative mythology, Pepeto is the god of frogs who traveled ... The story tells how Pepeto journeyed from ancient Sumerian civilizations to the modern crypto era, gathering these ...

Instead, the snake in this ancient Mesopotamian story seems to remind us that ... Athena placed the head on her shield, and it became one of her godly identifying symbols. In Ancient Greek mythology, ...

Other inscriptions say things like “here is where scorpions are born” or this inscription over a largely empty Africa, “it is ...

A deep dive into the Egyptian gods and goddesses (their characteristics, myths, and symbols) who held significant sway over ...

The protagonist, Christopher Fairfax, is a youngish priest journeying through a wild and woolly late-medieval landscape – all menacing weather effects, raven-haunted gibbets and scrofulous, ...