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.

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 ...

As the fertility goddess, Ishtar was often associated with eggs, which were seen as a symbol of new life and rebirth. In ancient times, people would decorate eggs in honour of Ishtar and give them ...