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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archeologists have discovered 30 tablets at the bottom of an ancient ...

Among the many captivating stories of Hindu mythology, the tale of why Lord Ganesha cursed the Moon stands out as both ...

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 ...

This fragment of an iron “curse tablet” was written by a magician 1,700 years ago in Jerusalem, for a wealthy Roman woman named Kyrilla. Calling upon the gods, the magician writes in this section: ...

A Greek engraving on a 1,500-year-old lead tablet discovered in the ruins of an ancient theater in Israel has finally been deciphered, revealing a curse that may rival the modern-day backstabbing ...

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...