The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

Caduceus — that's the name of Hermes' rod, a staff with two intertwined snakes and wings, which the god, known as Mercury in ...

Sculpture was one of the most important art forms in ancient Greece. The materials, techniques, and themes were developed ...

There couldn’t have been a better mascot for fashion than the snake, which is slithering its way into the Lunar New Year as ...

The French archaeological mission from the University of Lyon and the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo ...

Imagine a snake — coiled, elusive, and steeped in meaning — emerging from the depth of the world's cultural history to leave ...

An impressive 7th-century AD statue head has been discovered in the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, Egypt. This marble head, ...

A prophecy about Alexander the Great is found in the Jewish Book of Daniel, which was written 200 years before his birth.

6 For instance, let us quote here the famous English exegete, Dodd, commenting upon John 6:46, "The knowledge which Christ has of God has that quality of direct vision which Hellenistic mystics ...