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For centuries, the pyramids of Giza have puzzled researchers - not just their mysterious voids and hidden chambers, but exactly how ancient Egyptians built such impressive structures without modern technology.

Japan is full of bizarre tales about crypto zoological creatures and things that go bump in the night. Here are five of them.

And One Singer-Songwriter. By Sarah Henstra.

The infamous Gorgon has evolved across millennia. In ancient Greece, Medusa had dragon’s scales; in 2016, she became an anti-Hillary Clinton meme. By Abigail Cain.

Caroline Alexander explores how Homer’s epic poem helped redefine the way we worship – and what the ancient Greek tale can still tell us about war. By Caroline Alexander.

In ancient Greek mythology, there is a dearth of stories centred on female heroines. An important exception is the fearless Atalanta. By Josho Brouwers.

"What I want to do here, by way of therapy, is give a taste of how told folklore and lived folklore bleed into each other." By Simon Young.

A couple of weeks ago, the pope described ‘fake news’ as being like the strategy employed by the ‘crafty serpent’ in the Book of Genesis… By Anne Enright.

Squonks, Lindworms, Dijiangs, and more.

In the 1610s, a powerful Catholic cardinal with an insatiable taste for art discovered a sculptor named Gian Lorenzo Bernini. At the time, Bernini was a teenager, and still restoring ancient sculptures alongside his artist-father, Pietro. It wasn’t long after Cardinal Scipione Borghese laid eyes on Bernini’s own early work, however, that the young artist’s prospects began to change. Cardinal Borghese commissioned some of Bernini’s greatest works, amassing sculptures in his villa and helping to launch the career of the Renaissance icon.

Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us? Because bad science makes for good stories. By Ted Scheinman.

In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it. By Mary Beard.

Pop culture has always found something sexy about female fighters, who feature in everything from Sumerian hymns and Greek mythology to the new Wonder Woman film. By Christian-Georges Schwentzel. (May 25, 2017)

From ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages, people made sense of fossils using myth and legend. By Stephanie Pappas.

Spanish street art duo Pichi & Avo collaborated in 2007, for an intriguing blend of traditional graffiti and renderings of mythological figures( influenced by ancient Greek sculpture). The precise shading and color is painted only with spray paint.

From Kill List to Blood on Satan’s Claw, celebrate May Day with a journey into the dark heart of the English countryside. By Michael Newton.

A lot of nerd culture is dominated by European mythology, from Thor to Lord of the Rings or even Harry Potter, just to name a few. But far from just a disservice to African or Asian or Middle Eastern cultures, this blind spot is a an even bigger disservice to nerds everywhere. There is a huge well of awesome mythology that has gone untapped, with epic characters and stories that would make even the most dignified comic book fan salivate. That’s where Brazilian artist Hugo Canuto comes in, who decided to give the gods and goddesses of Afro-Brazilian mythology the Marvel treatment a couple years ago.

The fallen archangel and antagonist of the epic poem. By Edward Simon.