Italian designers Ninja1 and Mach505 were so taken with a certain snake-haired gorgon that they created an anamorphic painting of the monster. Watch Medusa’s herpetological hairdo come together ...

The painting I saw that day at the Louvre had its origins in a real-life story of the recolonizing of Africa. In June 1816, the French frigate Medusa and three other ships headed to Senegal to ...

In 1816, the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the coast of West Africa. Without room on rescue boats for all 400 passengers, more than 140 were forced onto a hastily constructed life raft.

Greek mythology makes movie and TV comebackThere were inscriptions written above the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi, and the two most famous ones were cautionary words of ...