Explore the symbolism of snakes in Hinduism and their divine significance in Hindu mythology, representing power, protection, ...

Archeologist and art historian Lapatin (president of the Boston society of the Archaeological Institute of America) looks into the history of one of the most celebrated archeological finds of the 20th ...

The best known Chinese folk representation of snakes is the Legend of the White Snake. The snake's role in it has gone from bad to good The snake may be less celebrated in Chinese culture than, say, ...

This figure represents a slender female in standing position. Her head is reptilian. She has long, slanting slit eyes, a pointed snout with a nostril on either side, and a small, horizontally slit ...

Archaeologists have recently uncovered an 1,800-year-old sculpture depicting an ancient hybrid deity at the site of a Roman fort in Germany. The sandstone artifact came to light during excavations in ...

Award-winning poet Ruth Padel will read her new poems inspired by the 'Snake Goddess' figurines found at Knossos (Crete) over a century ago. This event is part of the collaborative, international ...

Heidi Klum donned green scales and squirming snakes to transform herself into Medusa for Halloween​ on Friday.

Mike Marino, a Hollywood prosthetics designer and Ms. Klum’s longtime Halloween collaborator, said her costume this year was inspired by the snakelike, stop-motion Medusa from the 1981 movie “Clash of ...

Heidi Klum has revealed her latest Halloween costume, donning green scales and squirming snakes to transform herself into Medusa ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Heidi Klum donned green scales and squirming snakes to transform herself into Medusa for Halloween on Friday. Klum said she loves the Greek myth of Medusa, in which a goddess turns a ...