Rather than permitting us to return to nearby Sicily, the Italian Coast Guard orders us to the port of Crotone to disembark ...

Previously, the site hosted an ancient cult, according to the U.N ... a nymphaeum (a monument dedicated to water nymphs) and temple ruins. Notably, some of these monuments, like the Temple ...

Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

LAST week some of the words of that Scottish genius Walter Scott were going through my head as Rosalind and I walked down to ...

Ancient Roman religion and mythology would eventually equate ... circling the Underworld seven times; named for Styx, the nymph of the river, it flows out of the world river, Oceanus, and is typically ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

It reveals that they are the last remnants of ancient highlands which retreated by hundreds of kilometres after water wore much of them away billions of years ago. Dr Joe McNeil, a scientist at the ...