Not every monster in mythology starts as one. And Medusa has dozens of interpretations. Is her story a cautionary tale about ...

The author of the Myth of Monsters series recommends works that tell, or retell, these strange and wonderful stories for ...

A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet.

The translation of Sumerian tablet from Nippur reveals a rare myth of storm god Ishkur and the earliest trickster fox.

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