Mine is, naturally, a bed of godly proportions. This is despite the fact that I have not grown a millimeter since I was a ...

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

Those familiar with Greek mythology know the story of Icarus ... and they’d be soaked by the sea. We all know what happened next. Overcome by enthusiasm for flight, Icarus arced higher and ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

There are dozens more sites around the globe where visitors can get close to the man ... Myths and as yet unproven theories also link him to other sites across the northern hemisphere. The ancient ...

The Minoans made wine here in the 20th century B.C.,” said Ergin Ince, the guide that one of my hotels, Six Senses Kaplankaya, had secured for me for a tour of the ancient cities of Priene ...

So too were shoals of Adriatic fish: sardines, mackerel and sprats, as well as sea anemones and urchins ... Europe with Asia and was famous in Greek mythology for Leander's nightly swims to ...

I think of Greek mythology’s Icarus, who on escape from prison ignored his old man Daedalus’ advice, flew too close to the sun on waxed wings, plunged into the sea and drowned. That’s hardly ...

The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before ...

Homer is the attributed author of two ancient Greek poems that ... his crew fight against a man-eating cyclops, powerful giants, and sirens. They defeat witches and sea monsters, and anger the ...

With “Parthenope,” which borrows its name from one of the sirens of Greek myth, Sorrentino is ... might have been to give birth to a sea creature from ancient Greece during the summer of ...

The shrine attracted global attention in 2016 when restorers uncovered remnants of an ancient tomb behind ... think the real Jesus—the man who inspired the myth—hides below the surface of ...