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
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
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
Pompeii, famously destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, is treasure trove due to its extraordinary state of preservation. One would be forgiven for thinking that everything had been found in the century modern archaeologists have spent excavating the Roman city. But this would be a mistake, as on October 24th the Pompeii