The Norse goddess Idunn was charged with the special task of tending to the orchards of golden apples in Asgard. It was these ...

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By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

After seeing The Brightening Air at the Old Vic, I left the theatre with the overwhelming urge to seize control of my own ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought h ...

Fold7 creative Philippa Baines’s own health struggles helped inspire her team to create an impactful, London marathon-themed ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

There’s a strong sense of the numinous in the writing of Conor McPherson. From his first hit The Weir to the Bob ...

Why does Artemis of Ephesus look so different from the Greek huntress we know? Her statue’s unusual imagery has puzzled ...

If there’s one God of War character that deserves his own spin-off game, it’s Baldur.

The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

Though Kristallnacht happened on Nov. 9, 1938—marking the first large-scale pogrom against Jews under Nazi rule in ...