For as long as we’ve told stories, we’ve mixed fact with fiction: cities swallowed by the sea, warrior women, forgotten civilisations. While there is a lot of fantasy thrown in, there is usually some ...

The Aztecs has about 200 deities — and in this article, we're uncovering the 13 most important Aztec gods and goddesses you ...

Dark myths express the fear that our creations are beyond our control. Among them, the Golem, born of medieval Jewish mysticism, perfectly embodies this concern. In the legend, a rabbi fashions a clay ...

This book explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers a reexamination of the mid-16th-century “Popol Vuh,” long considered an authoritative text, which is better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A relief depicting a row of captives, carved into the Sun Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Richard Maschmeyer/ Design Pics via Getty ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how. By Alexandra Alter For centuries, ...

The second largest of the Cook Islands is preserved in the past. July 27, 2010— -- In the 1620's the descendants of the Aitu clan returned to Mangaia hungry for revenge. According to oral history ...