From the mystery of the lost city of Atlantis to the tale of Sleeping Beauty, we seek out locations around the world steeped in myths and legends that are sure to capture your imagination.

"Sour and haunting and hope-dwindling. Zeus prevails, unpunished and divine, abandoning Leda as collateral damage of a desire that is inherently violent." Amelia Higgs contemplates Michelangelo's ...

The recent “Greenland standoff” was not an isolated diplomatic spat; it was a fire alarm for a continent still sleeping under ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the sphinx.

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later ...