In the Western culture, snakes are often associated with temptation, sin and evil forces, famously symbolized by the serpent in the Bible who lured Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. It is also ...

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Chinese New Year celebrates the year of the snake. During this auspicious time, Chinese Christians can take the opportunity ...

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ANTY’s new jewelry collection reimagines talismans rooted in Egyptian symbolism.

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

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

The gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. AMIR MAKAR/AFP Some ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

The breakthrough was part of the Vesuvius Challenge, a project that utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher ancient texts ... that shares many symbols with Linear B but has never ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...