Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm The archaeological site of ...

The mask mold, found in a building believed to have been used as a mask workshop, depicts Medusa with a stern face surrounded ...

One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century ...

在接下来的两千年里，美杜莎的故事被不断重新解读，这也反映了人类社会与文化不停的演进。现代读者和学者常将她的故事视为一个反映女性在古代社会中遭受不公正待遇的缩影。还有一些人认为雅典娜的惩罚虽过于残酷，但也可能是出于对美杜莎的保护——变得丑陋的她避免了可 ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

Sicily, archaeologists have discovered a mask mold that, according to initial interpretations, could represent Medusa, the ...

Maha Kumbh Mela Mythology, History, Astrology: It is cold in Prayagraj ... The answers, as in many questions about Hinduism, lie in a mixture of myths, history, and the enduring faith of an ancient ...

The gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. AMIR MAKAR/AFP Some historians have suggested that the dual qualities of the snake — as both a ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

the hero poet and musician of Greek mythology. Richard Janko, a classicist at the University of Michigan, has called the papyrus “the most important new piece of evidence about Greek philosophy ...