Per ardua ad astra, through adversity Jews reach the stars, and with luck often Venus, although Mars is thought by the ...

Hummingbirds are a rare sight for some, especially in cities and areas with less vegetation. Luckily, there are a plethora of ...

Princess Beatrice has honored her Greek heritage in the first photograph of her newborn daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose, released by Buckingham Palace. Wrapped in a luxurious knitted blanket designed ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

From mythical guardians to symbols of transformation and terror, the snake has slithered its way into the annals of art ...

It slithers to pole position in the Chinese zodiac in 2025. Famous snake babies include Taylor Swift and J.K. Rowling. The ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Assos have discovered a 2,200-year-old Hellenistic mosaic and a 1,800-year-old Roman-era tomb.

The Rod of Asclepius remains a symbol of health and medicine around the world to this day. Asclepius was a demi-god son of ...

Carmenta, also known as Nicostrate, had a festival dedicated to her, the Carmentalia, and was often represented with a crown ...

The goddess's body was not fully revealed in Greek art, however, until about 350 B.C., when a sensational cult statue in her temple at Knidos (in present-day Turkey), carved by the sculptor Praxiteles ...