As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Many varieties of ancient Greek healing herbs grow on "Asclepius Path," Mount Kerketion, where god of medicine, Asclepius, ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

A rare Corinthian helmet from ancient Greece, made of bronze and dating back to between 500 and 450 BCE, is set to be auctioned in London later this month. The auction house Apollo Art Auctions is ...

A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

According to the myth, Hyacinthus was accidentally killed during a discus competition with Apollo ... flower is seen as a symbol of communication and messages. In ancient Greek mythology, irises ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is the mightiest mass of ice in Europe. Covering a staggering 66 square miles (171sq km) it has always attracted ...

Human conflict makes up another category on the WMF list, and the creamy white modernist building known as Teacher's House in Kyiv, a symbol of Ukrainian ... and it's a Greek Orthodox church ...

He used China's youth, called the Red Guards, to tear down symbols of the past and publicly ... We have a liftoff, liftoff on Apollo 11. Ghaffarian: One of the major transformational moments ...

The Lamb of Christ, found on an altar at Saint Patrick’s Basilica, represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the ...

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...