Perched on a high rock near Corinth are the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which once housed a thousand prostitutes.

The annual Ọ̀ṣun festival is a week-long event that usually takes place between the end of July and early August.

A 4,000-year-old tomb in Egypt once held the body of a royal magician. In that early era, he also served as a priest and a ...

In many accounts of how, when, and where cats began sharing their lives with humans, the ancient Egyptians are credited as ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

is an Egyptian goddess, daughter of Re, the sun god, who is often seen in the form of a black cat. She was worshipped for good things, being the goddess of the home, fertility, women’s secrets, cats ...

Teti Neb Fu was also called a priest and the 'magician' of Serket (the goddess of healing venomous stings and bites in ...

The Graces were at least three fertility goddesses while the Muses were nine goddesses of inspiration in the arts, science and literature, who Zeus fathered with the Titan deity associated with memory ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three more EU member states — including the most populous, Germany — have joined the list of ...

In Egyptian mythology, gods and goddesses could transform into animals, but only one, Bastet, goddess of home and fertility, was believed to be able to take on the form of a cat. A magnificent ...