Welcome back to our series World Mythology Warnings for Today. In case you missed our previous (and first) episode, be sure you click here to explore what happened in Persia. In today’s second episode, we’ll revisit Ancient Greece as we present a tale that has been told across generations: Icarus’s Flight. This particular legend captures a dangerous moment of human ambition gone awry; and where balance (neither too much nor too little)...
For 4,400 years, a small clay tablet lay hidden inside the ruins of the Ancient Sumerian city of Nippur (in what’s now southern Iraq). This tablet may be miniscule but it reveals a forgotten myth that expands Mespotamian storytelling. Today, this ancient tablet (labeled Ni 12501) rests in Turkey’s Istanbul Archaeological Museums, where University of Chicago’s Sumerologist Jana Matuszak decoded its secrets this year. Published in the journal Iraq, her work unveils...
Welcome, dear readers, to the very first installment of our article series World Mythology Warnings for TODAY. This is I, your humble guide Zeffs Amman, alongside the writers’ crew at AllThatHistory, for we invite you to trek with us into the timeless stories of world mythology. As we navigate the complexities of 2025—a time filled with discord, confusion and media brouhaha—we aim to draw inspiration from the wisdom of our ancestors. These...
Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is far more than a tale of resurrected dinosaurs running amok. This sci-fi thriller carries deeper cultural threads that connect paleontology, indigenous mythology and ethical warnings about humanity’s unchecked ambition. By linking myth with science, the novel reveals our age-old habit of explaining the unknown through traditional legends. Among the most intriguing connections is the subtle intertwining of Crichton’s fictional dinosaurs with the undead Hupia—faceless nocturnal spirits from...
On this year 2025’s Father’s Day weekend, the film live adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon has dazzled audiences everywhere. The movie’s cutting-edge visual effects conjures the amazing imagery and magic of dragons, which in turn, has renewed peoples’ deep fascination for these mythic creatures with fresh hot energy. The film even soared to box-office success, thus proving that our interest in dragons is as resilient as ever. Yet, beyond the...
Zeus’s rise to ultimate power wasn’t just forged by thunderbolts and battles with Titans—it was an act of divine transcendence, rooted in an ancient Orphic tradition often overshadowed by Hesiod’s Theogony. Hesiod’s genesis account gives us a divine family tree of order and rebellion—a genesis filled with clashes and conquests. However, Hesiod’s genesis isn’t the only origin story that was told in Ancient Greece, for there’s another tradition: the Orphic cosmology. The...
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