What sort of weirdness would the Egyptian God of Toilets get up to? The strangest-looking Ancient Egyptian god might surprise ...

Should God of War's next game be based on Egyptian mythology, then it may not have to look far to find new inspiration for ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

They hurl thunderbolts, throw wild parties, and mess with the lives of mortals. Can you match each description to the correct god or goddess?

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

When Penelope and Odysseus reunite after twenty years, the Odyssey ends as a love story with two protagonists who fought gods ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Mythology, whether Egyptian, Greek, or Roman mythology, has played a role in all our lives as stories, myths and legends that have influenced ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...