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Why the Egyptian gods have animal heads (and which animal is which)

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Why the Egyptian gods have animal heads (and which animal is which)

It is always the first question. A child sees an Egyptian painting, stares at a man with the head of a black dog, and asks the obvious thing: why? And the usual answer — "because they worshipped animals" — is both incomplete and slightly wrong. The Egyptians did not worship

The Norse myths your child already half-knows (and the full stories behind them)

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The Norse myths your child already half-knows (and the full stories behind them)

Your child probably already knows who Thor is. Knows he has a hammer, that he's blond, that he shouts a lot. What they almost certainly don't know is that in the original story the hammer gets stolen, that Thor has to dress up as a bride

Romulus and Remus: the twins, the wolf and the founding of Rome, told for kids

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Romulus and Remus: the twins, the wolf and the founding of Rome, told for kids

A basket drifts down the river Tiber. Inside are two baby boys. Nobody is waiting for them downstream, nobody is looking for them, and the current decides where they end up. That is how one of the most famous stories ever told begins: Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded

The Trojan Horse Story for Kids: The Greatest Trick

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The Trojan Horse Story for Kids: The Greatest Trick

Ten years of war. A city with walls nobody can breach, an army camped outside that cannot go home without winning, and a stalemate that has cost thousands of lives. And it ends because somebody builds a horse. This is the most famous trick in military history, and it is

The Odyssey for Kids: Every Adventure Explained

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The Odyssey for Kids: Every Adventure Explained

The Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in Europe and also one of the simplest: a man wants to go home. It takes him ten years. What makes it so useful for children is its shape. It is not one continuous plot but a chain of stops, and each

The Cyclops Story for Kids: Odysseus and Polyphemus

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The Cyclops Story for Kids: Odysseus and Polyphemus

It is probably the most famous trick in all of Greek mythology, and children understand it instantly: a man is trapped in the cave of a man-eating giant, has no weapon that would help, and no way out. What he has is an idea. He tells the giant his