Citizens of ancient China may have been speaking of the ... itself a reference to the lyre carried by Orpheus, the most tragic widower/troubadour in the long, bloody litany of Greek mythology.

Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ancient Greeks ... Her brother is Helios, the sun god, and her sister Selene, the moon goddess. He also says that Eos ...

Zeus: Even in the ancient ... sun's rays strike the earth like darts, Apollo was thought of as an archer-god, whose arrows could either wound or heal. He was also the god of song and the lyre ...

At the top of a letter to Jane Morris in 1868, he scribbled a crest for ‘The Bard and Petty Tradesman’ in which Morris, plucking a lyre beneath a laurel tree ... Although Wagner’s Ring took the same ...

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A new study reveals how ancient Greek and Roman music sounded using exact tuning and intonation based on 61 preserved pieces.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests research published in Scientific Reports.The study describes large amber ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...