Heerlen curse tablet with an ancient Greek invocation of deities and demons in the Egyptian style. Credit: Elke Fuchs, ...

Football has always been a game of fine margins — a centimetre here, a moment's hesitation there. But at Boston Stadium, during England's ...

A crew of Dutch researchers have made strides in translating the spell laid out on a recently-surfaced Roman curse tablet.

The Heerlen curse tablet features an ancient Greek invocation of deities and demons in the Egyptian style. A tiny curse ...

An ancient Roman curse tablet discovered in the Netherlands has revealed a surprising blend of cultural traditions, featuring rare Egyptian magic written in ancient Greek. Found during excavations in ...

A Roman tablet unearthed in the Netherlands has been deciphered and found to contain "magical" spells to invoke deities and ...

A research team from the University of Heidelberg has managed to decipher the contents of a curse tablet from the Roman era ...

For medieval communities, childbirth was rated alongside war and plague as a situation that put body and soul at risk. Dr Róisín Donohoe examines the place of the birth scroll, in protecting women in ...

Heidelberg University researchers have deciphered the inscription on an ancient curse tablet, which was once used to invoke ...

Magic, sorcery, conjuring and divination involve various strange and ancient practices and terms that can be quite confusing. All of these things fall under the heading of the much larger — and often ...

Just before the tip-off of a May 18 playoff game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs, Fr. Danny Grover stood in a spotlight at center court holding a microphone. "Strong and ...

(RNS) — The Oklahoma City Thunder is the only NBA team to hold a public, ecumenical invocation before the singing of the national anthem — a longstanding tradition that continues to confound ...