Somewhere around 4,000 years ago, a scribe in the ancient Near East pressed a reed stylus into wet clay and wrote out ...

Ancient, magical spells of love, subjugation and sex: It may sound like a "Game of Thrones" episode, but these evildoings are also found on two recently deciphered papyri from Egypt dating to around 1 ...

Imagination and folk legend in imperial China came up with objects that could display people’s internal organs and a flying ...

The Penn Museum is going to be a little more magical for the next year. On Friday, the Museum opened a new exhibit, Magic in the Ancient World, that displays magical objects from ancient civilizations ...

An ancient Egyptian papyrus with an image showing two bird-like creatures, possibly with a penis connecting them, has been deciphered, revealing a magic spell of love. "The most striking feature of ...

The tablets revealed writing on topics ranging from daily life to a list of kings.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A magical getaway inspired by Knoxville author Tom Boyd is located less than two hours from our region. The book is called “Bokee’s Trek: Outcasts To Inner Earth”, a place where ...

They look like something out of Albus Dumbledore’s Hogwarts library: Hundreds of dusty magic books as old as 430 years. They were the prized possessions of a Milwaukee businessman – and amateur ...

Ancient, magical spells of love, subjugation and sex: It may sound like a "Game of Thrones" episode, but these evildoings are also found on two recently deciphered papyri from Egypt dating to around 1 ...