We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

The Funerary Temple of Amenhotep III on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor has reclaimed much of its original grandeur with ...

Mention “perfume” and one might first envision fragrant liquids in fancy flacons. Yet the name itself, derived from the Latin ...

Most of us have intuitive thoughts, where our inner voice says something bizarre. But being functional adults, we don’t let ...

While we now know what the winter solstice actually is, people around the world for thousands of years have believed the legends that surround the tales of gods, nature and heroes and above all ...

Walk into any museum and you'll see them. Those ancient statues with generous hips, full breasts, and rounded bellies.For ...

As many people gear up to celebrate the start of their New Year at the beginning of January, we take a look at how other ...

Ehyeh is the verb ‘to be’ in its future tense singular form and means ‘I will/might/may become the one who I may/will/might become,’ indicating that Ehyeh is The God of Potentialities, The God of ...

However, the Abu Simbel Temples were more than a testament to rare royal love - they were a carefully crafted religious and ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

Amenhotep III ruled a golden age of Egyptian gods and glory. But his son, Akhenaten, betrayed it all. This is the story of a religious revolution that plunged Egypt into chaos—the banning of the old ...

Equal parts strange and terrifying: these are some of the many monsters that have haunted Greek mythology since antiquity.