As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an ancient Mayan artifact featuring a depiction of a serpent. The stone block was used by the Maya as the cover of a vault, Mexico's National Institute of ...

Archaeologists excavating a 2,000-year-old sanctuary in Italy found eggs and bronze figures left in a hot spring as gifts, photos show. Photo from Ludovico Salerno and the SABAP-SI Comune di San ...

A study of a scroll made more than 2,300 years ago has revealed how there were likely far more venomous snakes in ancient Egypt than are living in the country today. The document, known as the ...