Something larger than life is coming to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History—and it’s not another dino. It’s “Spirit Guides,” a vibrant display of six to eight-feet tall hybrid animal sculptures.

The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.

Four trays and four staff found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings may have been used in an ancient ...