Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

In Greek mythology, Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ...

Hindu mythology isn’t just filled with gods and goddesses it’s teeming with powerful animals that are not only companions but ...

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AT ONE OF the earliest points of our recorded history, the remarkable culture of Mesopotamia ... gods as a kind of opposing twin for him. The two have great adventures together. At one point, ...

Parikrama is done differently for different Gods and Goddesses. And for a Parikrama to be complete, people usually look for the rules of the Parikrama, the number of times they have to do it ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

Archaeologists in Egypt discover mummified crocodiles dating back over 3,000 years near Aswan. Found in sacred sites ...

Has marriage always had the same definition? Actually, the institution has been in a process of constant evolution. Pair-bonding began in the Stone Age as a way of organizing and controlling ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Birds and animals have been speaking to humans for as long as one can remember Theres a story behind every animal or bird behaviour if legends can have it Whether you believe the animal kingdom to be ...