Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

Today, glass is ordinary, on-the-kitchen-shelf stuff. But early in its history, glass was bling for kings. Thousands of years ago, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt surrounded themselves with the stuff, ...

TikTok—specifically #witchtok—is fueling interest in paganism. Here’s how to immerse yourself in full moon rituals, spellcasting, and more. The Ivana Kupala festival, in Kyiv, Ukraine, is part of an ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new clues about where these raiders came from.

A new study sheds new light on the origins of modern brain cells. Researchers find evidence that specialized secretory cells found in placozoans, tiny sea creatures the size of a grain of sand, have ...