Fairy Tales Might Be Thousands of Years Older Than You Think

A new study shows that famous fairy tales like Beauty and The Beast and Rumpeltiltskin might be thousands of years older previously assumed. Dr. Jaime Tehrani from Durham University worked with folklorist Sara Graça da Silva from The New University of Lisbon to study 275 Indo-European fairy tales, using a technique commonly employed by biologists … Continue reading Fairy Tales Might Be Thousands of Years Older Than You Think