The lead curse tablet was discovered in a city square in the Netherlands and recently deciphered by researchers in Germany ...

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

Have you ever wondered why ancient scriptures are filled with stories of powerful curses that changed the fate of kings, ...

A peculiar lead curse tablet, unearthed in the Netherlands, is rewriting our understanding of ancient Roman magic. Discovered ...

The newly deciphered lead tablet reveals a binding curse written in ancient Greek, buried in a pit, and still full of ...

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

From curses to cures — an ancient hex might just be modern science’s secret to battling leukemia. In the 1920s, archaeologists blamed a string of bizarre deaths following the excavation of King ...

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

Discovering a young pharaoh's ancient, long-dormant tomb sent the media into a frenzy in the 1920s – but uncovering one mystery invited another when the financier of the expedition died a sudden, ...