The king of the gods in the ancient Greek pantheon had a notorious reputation for sleeping around, so it should come as no ...

Toilet gods — deities associated with these essential yet often overlooked aspects of daily life — have been venerated in ...

Ancient Greek women had their own festival, Haloa, where they honored three deities with drinking, dirty jokes, and huge phalluses.

Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the newly discovered tomb of an ancient priestess that ... Hetpet was a priestess to the goddess of fertility Hathor, who assisted women in childbirth.

Ancient rituals in Tlaloc's honor took ... such as is the case with a snake. As the Aztec goddess of love, beauty and ...

In order to tell time once the sun set, the ancient Egyptians identified ... researchers found reliefs of Repit, a lioness goddess, and her husband Min, the fertility god, who is accompanied ...

In ancient Egypt, cats were revered as near ... And don't forget Bastet: goddess of home and fertility-who appeared as a lioness or a domestic cat. So how did cats go from being simple hunters ...