In antiquity, love or revenge was just a spell away Erin Blakemore Correspondent This 2,000-year-old scroll is covered with mysterious words in Aramaic. Miomir Korac/Archaeological Institute The ...

They look like something out of Albus Dumbledore’s Hogwarts library: Hundreds of dusty magic books as old as 430 years. They were the prized possessions of a Milwaukee businessman – and amateur ...

People living 2,000 years ago had beliefs and practices that were quite similar to — as well as quite different from — those inhabiting Earth today, Barbette Spaeth constantly reminds her students.

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