Ancient Religions & Mythologies

  Discover all the cut-throat facts about the Angry Aztecs with historys most horrible headlines: Aztec edition.  Jump into Az...

'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, arch...

What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities? Like public advertisements lini...

Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of...

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial lifeand even invented real automated machines The fi...

'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize to...

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE Ch...

A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her...

This book offers a clear and concise historical overview of the major religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean world existing from the time...