Evidence shows that the Greeks originally imagined Atlas as holding up by the sky by means of supporting the pillars of ...

Some gods ruled storms, some ruled seas, and some ruled the night sky. But in the deep, quiet corners of Greek mythology ...

Those who haven’t been so good, however, can expect a visit from Krampus, a terrifying figure who arrives the night before to ...

This video explores every major Slavic god from A to Z and explains the roles they played in ancient mythology.

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Scholars reveal that much of what we think we know about Vikings and Norse mythology is based on later reinterpretations rather than original sources.

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...