The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Cats became symbols of Artemis and Diana in Greek/Roman religious ... similarly featured cats linked to the goddess Freyja, implying that spiritual and ritual beliefs helped propel cats across ...

Why does Artemis of Ephesus look so different from the Greek huntress we know? Her statue’s unusual imagery has puzzled ...

The gold and ivory statues of Apollo, Artemis and Leto at Delphi are extraordinary treasures of ancient Greek art.

In his 1682 essay “De Ovis Paschalibus” (“Concerning Easter Eggs”) Georg Franck von Franckenau describes German children searching for eggs supposedly laid by a hare—a ritual we would ...

When she hit the stage in Indio, California, this past weekend, she looked like a Grecian goddess, draped in a gold ... channeling Britney Spears and Diana Ross in her second look of the performance.

The allusion was intentional. Gautreau wears upon her head the most delicate and petite of tiaras—a diamond crescent moon, a symbol of the goddess Diana, goddess of the hunt and of chastity.

In the last book of his Metamorphoses, Ovid portrays Egeria as so inconsolable after the death of Numa that the goddess Diana turns her into a spring of running water. When Jefferson died in 1826 ...

People in large numbers gathered at Danda Kali temples in parts of Ganjam district to take part in the final rituals. In Berhampur ... his life after his two wives worshiped Maa Kali and the Goddess ...