Stories and mysteries from the mythology era.
Mythology
Ancient geographers said people in Colchis caught gold in sheepskins laid in rivers. In 2014 Georgian scientists tried it in the mountain streams of Svaneti and Racha, and it worked.
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Mythology
Inside a pyramid at Calakmul, a painting about two thousand years old may show one of the Maya Hero Twins, in a room built to look like a cave, centuries before the Popol Vuh was written.
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Mythology
Spinning discs that never miss, tridents, thunderbolts and the Brahmastra. A guide to the astras and shastras of Hindu myth, who carried them and what they were said to do.
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Mythology
Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, Hel and the rest, all hung from one ash tree. What the Eddas say about the nine worlds, and how little of the neat map comes from the sources.
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Mythology
The kappa who loves cucumbers, the tengu of the mountains, the fox who becomes a woman, the snow woman who freezes travellers: a guide to the spirits of Japanese folklore.
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