In Ancient Greece, professional curse writers were employed to hex the living and the dead from beyond the grave.

The ancient Greek sanctuary and theater of Dodona, home to the oldest oracle, are part of a uniquely historic site in the ...

While excavating a historic hospital in France, a team of archaeologists uncovered dozens of Roman-era graves, some with ancient “curse tablets ... inscriptions in Greek and Latin across ...

Scholars are gaining fresh insights into the ancient custom of cursing. Recently archaeologists turned up dozens of defixiones, or curse tablets, that may shed new light on how people throughout ...