TATTOOS have been around for more than 5,000 years, with everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to the Incas dabbling in rudimentary ink. As it sits just under the skin, body art is often lost as a ...

From Kokopelli to the Eye of Horus, some icons popular today have lost their original meanings. Millennia from now we’ll be gone, but symbols from 21st century culture may endure. Perhaps a future ...

Goddess Durga's sacred symbols inspire modern jewelry plus fashion designs plus home decor patterns bringing spiritual energy into daily life. Research shows the trident represents three aspects of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered pieces from 27 fragmented statues of the lioness goddess Sekhmet at a dig site in the country's southern city of Luxor. The experts found the black granite ...

Five gold coins unearthed from a temple in ancient Carthage depict the goddess Tanit and were likely left by wealthy worshippers alongside burials as an offering to deities. When you purchase through ...

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, ...