The Villanovans were the earliest Etruscans who brought iron-working to Italy. Image with funerary urn, Sarteano, Italy. Credit: Mad Maenad. CC BY 2.0/flickr The Villanovan culture, the earliest phase ...

This idea – that we must put in more effort to perfect a good night’s sleep – is a myth that Van de Laar is keen to dispel. “If you ask a person who sleeps well, ‘How do you sleep well?’ ...

Proto-Tyrsenic is the hypothetical ancestor language of Etruscan. No actual traces of it have been found yet. Professor Alwin Kloekhorst, a Dutch linguist, demonstrated in a 2021 paper that this ...

Some are convinced it’s the legendary Leviathan– an ancient creature from myth– while others are skeptical, brushing it off as another internet hoax. But as enticing as the idea of ...

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 “kill switch”, which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F ...

Immortal Pillars is a great addition to Age of Mythology: Retold, finally giving the Chinese pantheon its due. New units and God Powers radically shake things up on the battlefield, and while the ...

Myth makes rivulets from where history has been dammed. The word “anger” is derived from an old Germanic word angaz that means a distressing narrowness, a squeezed, aching grip. Nussbaum theorises ...