In antiquity, love or revenge was just a spell away Erin Blakemore Correspondent This 2,000-year-old scroll is covered with mysterious words in Aramaic. Miomir Korac/Archaeological Institute The ...

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The Penn Museum is going to be a little more magical for the next year. On Friday, the Museum opened a new exhibit, Magic in the Ancient World, that displays magical objects from ancient civilizations ...

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Ancient, magical spells of love, subjugation and sex: It may sound like a "Game of Thrones" episode, but these evildoings are also found on two recently deciphered papyri from Egypt dating to around 1 ...

If you have played the first few hours of Hogwarts Legacy, you already know that your character has the ability to tap into some ancient magic to basically become a super wizard and deal devastating ...

Archaeologists have discovered the "richly decorated" tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary that is filled with magic spells aimed at protecting against snake bites. The tomb, thought to date to the ...

They look like something out of Albus Dumbledore’s Hogwarts library: Hundreds of dusty magic books as old as 430 years. They were the prized possessions of a Milwaukee businessman – and amateur ...

The researchers say the interest from ancient Romans was possibly rooted in the belief that these specimens carried magical or protective powers A LONG extinct creature has been found inside a ...

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Egyptologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old tomb just south of Cairo containing numerous magical sayings meant to ward off snake bites. The tomb's entrance was covered with sayings aimed to both ...

There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptians royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. Scientists in France are reporting that the ...