The Mysterious Minoan Snake Goddess. Credit: Erik Törner/Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Since the discovery of the so-called Minoan ‘Snake Goddesses,’ it has been debated whether British archaeologist Arthur ...

Decades ago, the surest sign that Christmastime had arrived were when the cartoons hit television. Seeing claymation Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown and his sad little tree, even the mean old ...

Often linked to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the statue was later confirmed to be the head of Anahit, the Armenian goddess of fertility, healing, wisdom and water, who was venerated in the ...

Elsewhere, she evokes images of garlands, scents and even apples to convey feminine sensuality. Hers was largely a world of beauty, caresses, whispers, and desires; songs sung in honor of the goddess ...

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The inscription spells out the name "Materan," a goddess of the Phrygians, who flourished in what is now Turkey from roughly 1200 to 600 B.C. They knew her "simply as the Mother," Mark Munn ...

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard regularly received death threats after the publication of the cartoon in 2005 Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Prophet Muhammad ...