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Isis: Goddess of Funeral Rites and Healing in Ancient Egypt
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIsis, goddess of healing and funeral rites, was one of the most important Egyptian deities and arguably one of the most prominent female deities in the ancient world.
Norse Mythology: Gods, Goddesses, Yggdrasil and More
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoUnlike monotheistic religions based on the belief in an omnipotent, all-powerful overseer god who judges actions and determines justice in the mortal...
Poseidon: God of the Sea, Earthquakes and Horse Races
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPoseidon, god of the sea, was an integral figure in ancient Greek mythology. Although the name Poseidon means "lord of the earth," this ...
12 Mayan Gods Who Helped Make Sense of a Complex World
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAncient Maya culture was centered on interconnected city-states that developed great networks of...
32 haunting shipwrecks from the ancient world
Live Science via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoShipwrecks can reveal information about traded goods and even which rituals people partook in centuries ago. Here's a look at shipwrecks from ancient...
10 Oldest Recorded Recipes in History
Cheapism via AOL· 3 days agoThe Aztecs believed that cacao was a gift from Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god, and that drinking xocolatl could give one strength and vitality....
The world’s most intact archaeological discoveries, ranked
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe footprints were preserved in a layer of hard, ancient gypsum and are surrounded by the...
Pioneer Press reader trip to Greece a dreamy mix of history, food and culture
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAs a child growing up in a small midwestern town, I had a long mental list of places I wanted to visit someday. Textbook photos of the impossibly blue seas, soaring mountains and abundant ruins ...
The Parthenon marbles evoke particularly fierce repatriation debates – an archaeologist explains why
The Conversation· 3 days agoThe Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British Museum that British diplomat Lord Elgin was given permission from Ottoman ...
