BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- As the Spring Festival ushers in the Year of the Snake, China is flooded with auspicious representations of the hissing, scaly reptile, from pythons coiling around gold ...

Chinese New Year celebrates the year of the snake. During this auspicious time, Chinese Christians can take the opportunity ...

Ancient Greeks knew a thing or two when it came to herbs, and oregano is one that they simply could not do without.

As millions celebrate the Lunar New Year, Chinese Catholic communities are deepening their spiritual practices, blending ...

Ms. Courtney Williams’ seventh-grade Greek Mythology class recently worked on a creative project that blended ancient myths ...

In the mythic geography book Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), many gods hold snakes or hang snakes around their ears, or have a snake’s body, as a mark of their extraordinary abilities, ...

The cowrie shell also has deep ties to womanhood. According to The Met, the shell’s “resemblance to the female vulva and alternatively to a squinting eye is thought to underlie a magical association ...

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

Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so once you've learned what each represents (as we explain below) you shouldn't have any problems no matter what you find in your laundry basket ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...