A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.

If you exercise regularly, especially if you lift weights, you’re going to need extra protein in your diet to help you build ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 1,700-year-old ancient Roman funerary area, including burials with libation ...

Long before stories of full moons and silver bullets, the Greeks told a far older tale of the first man cursed to become a ...

The Salem witch trials of the 1690s saw 20 victims executed, 19 by hanging. Far more interesting, horrifying, and awful is that Mr. Giles Corey, who "refused to enter an innocent or guilty plea," was ...

History is a complex web of triumph, tragedy, and change, but it isn’t immune to the threads of misinformation and misconceptions. There are “facts” that are often passed down through generations and ...

NEW YORK -- Heidi Klum donned green scales and squirming snakes to transform herself into Medusa for Halloween on Friday.

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

Hyperborea is a mythical land that appears several times in Greek mythology. But was it a real place? And if so, where was it ...

Homer’s Odyssey is one of the greatest works of ancient Greek epic poetry, telling the incredible journey of Odysseus as he ...

Halloween famously comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain, but does Samhain itself come from an Ancient Greek festival?