The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of ...

A look at what makes a work of art genuinely surreal via the work of Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Read more about it here.

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

The US administration is dismantling USAID's ideological indoctrination programmes abroad while increasing conservative influence at home, particularly in universities, and cracking down on dissent ...

Thanks to Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, and its film adaptation, many people think that the books that constitute ...

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The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, set to be the world's longest immersed tunnel at 18 kilometers, will connect Denmark and Germany, ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...