Magical texts of the ancient Near East, ... Magic between Entanglement, Interaction, and Analogy", they will research the magical text traditions of the ancient Near East, ...

One day, Sofer discovered an 18th century witchcraft text, most of it written anonymously because of the stigma attached to the subject. Gal Sofer holding an ancient witchcraft text. Photo by Sarah ...

"These texts are unique historical documents as they testify to ancient people's lived experiences: the language they spoke, the emotions they felt, the spiritual beings they turned to in moments ...

Furthermore, the same texts are also available online on the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc) platform. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals project gave a boost to the ...

A magic spell to keep snakes away from the tombs of Egyptian kings, adopted from the Canaanites almost 5,000 years ago, could be the oldest Semitic text yet discovered, experts said Tuesday.

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 earliest surviving example of man-to-wolf transformation is found in The Epic of Gilgamesh, from around 2,100 BC. But the werewolf as we now know it first appeared in ancient Greece and Rome.