Ancient Egypt was filled with gods of power, war, and fertility, but few were as fearsome and revered as Sobek, the crocodile-headed deity. Worshiped as a protector, a creator of the Nile, and a ...

One of the most recognizable figures of antiquity, the Sphinx, took many forms in the civilizations of Greece, the Near East ...

Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...