In the mythic geography book Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), many gods hold snakes or hang snakes around their ears, or have a snake’s body, as a mark of their extraordinary abilities, ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

As the Chinese Year of the Snake approaches Fu Zhaoe has been spending her days cutting and folding red paper to create snakes numbers and other dec ...

The best known Chinese folk representation of snakes is the Legend of the White Snake. The snake’s role in it has gone from ...

From an early age she was a rebel. She refused to be put in a box,” says curator Gannit Ankor of the Surrealist doyenne, now ...

From the ancient wall paintings of the Bhimbetka caves to their unique customs, mythology and craftsmanship, India’s tribes ...

Artist Jayasri Burman on using cowries in her recent works, the mythological character she admires most, and how her painted ...