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Before kings and empires, there were gods who ruled from the clouds — immortal, powerful, and often dangerously human. On Mount Olympus, the ancient Greeks imagined a divine family led by Zeus, god of ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a 2,400-year-old Ancient Greek Temple of Zeus in Limyra, solving a decades-old mystery.

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Here are 9 films that brought back classic mythologies in thrilling ways.

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This week there’s history, memoir, short fiction and fantasy to explore.

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.