History of Magic

In ancient Egypt, if a woman were having difficulty conceiving a child, she might spend an evening in a Bes Chamber (also known as an incubation...

In antiquity, love or revenge was just a spell away

The history of magic goes back around 5000 years. Learn where it all started and how people's perception of the art has changed over the millenia.

This is the story of how the magician has taken the scientific advantages and use them to conjure up a new ways to make things appear and disappear.

The belief in magic anc magical powers dates back to the earliest recorded history. In Egypt, for example, large number of magical papyri, in Greek, Coptic, and Demotic, have been recovered. These sources contain early instances of much of the magical lore that later became part

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The term "magic" etymologically derives from the Greek word mageia (μαγεία). In ancient times, Greeks and Persians had been at war for centuries, and the Persian priests, called magosh in Persian, came to be known as magoi in Greek. Ritual acts of Persian priests came to be known

This timeline of magic is a history of the performing art from B.C. to the present.