Despite emerging from an oral storytelling tradition, the Odyssey is consistently held up as one of the most significant stories in human history. When BBC Culture surveyed writers and literature ...

Explore 25 mythical creatures people believed were real. Uncover the fascinating reasons behind these ancient legends, from ...

Journey to the West’s most well known character is arguably Sun Wukong, the monkey king who joins the monk on his pilgrimage to retrieve sacred buddhist texts in the Chinese novel. For English ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn't have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

You may have read or recently heard about Jimothy, the raccoon in Seattle with a rounded back because of a rare spinal ...