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 ...

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 ...

An ancient Egyptian papyrus with an image showing two bird-like creatures, possibly with a penis connecting them, has been deciphered, revealing a magic spell of love. "The most striking feature of ...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A magical getaway inspired by Knoxville author Tom Boyd is located less than two hours from our region. The book is called “Bokee’s Trek: Outcasts To Inner Earth”, a place where ...

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 ...

This ancient Egyptian papyrus, now at Macquarie University, is decorated with an image of two bird-like creatures. A magical spell written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that uses the Greek alphabet, ...