The stone artifact, found in Israel, helps explain a popular motif that appears in Greek mythology and the Hebrew Bible. 2,800-year-old serpent artifact is a ‘missing link’ to Hercules ...

This article includes mentions of sexual misconduct and trauma When University of Iowa student Emmy Lane Palmersheim was young, they adored the stories of Greek mythology. They read all of the Percy ...

In Norse mythology, the snake that consumes its own tail, a.k.a an Ouroboros, goes by the name Jörmungandr. This Ouroboros is also known as the Midgard Serpent or the World Serpent.

The same motif further cropped up Greek mythology in the form of Herakles (the Roman translation of Hercules) locked in combat with a Hydra, a many-headed serpent creature.