Rika spends most of her days toiling in a frozen-foods warehouse, but her new gig is in a museum, where she has been hired to make conversation, in Latin, with an ancient Roman statue of the goddess ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why are so many statues naked? – Artie, age 12, ...

The names of the days in Greek represent a historical shift, with Christian traditions deliberately overwriting the pagan calendar.

The modern-day Avengers are just the next group to carry the torch of heroism. Just four years before the most famous version ...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Venus Williams dropped out of the BNP Paribas Open in the first round Thursday, falling 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1 to Diane Parry of France. The 45-year-old Williams, who has lost ...

The Eleusinian Mysteries were secret religious rites in ancient Greece honoring the goddess Demeter and her daughter ...

Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt called the timing a coincidence, noting that he had already commissioned a committee to come up with a list of women whose accomplishments merited public ...

Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during ...

Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...

March begins with steady effort yielding average results due to planetary influences. Mid-month brings a significant boost in ...

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon, creating a shadow across the lunar surface, which turns the moon's color reddish-orange. Our planet blocks most of the sun's ...