Not many people are familiar with Greek mythology but, quite a number of people are acquainted with the tale of a woman who has snakes for hair and whose gaze can petrify even the mightiest of men.

Early depictions of the gorgon Medusa-a monster from Greek mythology-show an ugly, winged woman with serpents entwined in her hair, bulging eyes, a wide grin, a protruding tongue, and boar tusks, ...

ESO’s wonderfully named Very Large Telescope has done it again, capturing some of the most detailed images ever taken of the beautiful Medusa Nebula. Astronomers used the Chile-housed telescope to ...

When Athena turned the vain, beautiful Medusa into a monster with a head full of snakes, it was said in Greek myth no man could look upon her without turning to stone. The building that Medusa, a ...

The nebula was called Medusa because poisonous snakes hung from her grotesque head, instead of hair. Those who named the nebula thought – though I’m not sure why – that the glimmering filaments of the ...

The Capitoline Museum has loaned a sculpture of Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini to the San Francisco Legion of Honor, where the cursed beauty graces the City by the Bay through February. “Recent ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Inner sanctum ... the Medusa's peaceful courtyard and a gaudy bedroom. The Medusa may have some cracks but there's still charm to the ...

In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange childhood, ...