According to myth, cave wyrms are terrifying creatures that live deep inside mountain caves, or sometimes in marshes and fens ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

In the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, a throne room built during the 15th century BC is considered the oldest such room in Europe.

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Worshipped across wide expanses of Slavic Europe and even beyond (as Perkunas he also appears in Baltic mythology), Perun is the reigning lord of the heavens, and the god of lightning and thunder. As ...

Before it made the pages of Vogue, Milos was famous in Greek mythology as the birthplace of Aphrodite, goddess of love, and a visit to Sarakiniko beach will have you falling hard. Thanks to that ...