The origins of many holiday traditions are shrouded in mystery, a hodgepodge of beliefs steeped in myths, folklore, legends, ...

Often described as one of Germany's best-kept secrets, it's a great alternative to Munich and Berlin, with all the charm and ...

The biggest public holiday in India, Diwali features prayers for prosperity and good fortune — and lots of sweets.

The Christmas Tree Festival will be back over five days from November 29 and will pack out the church with more than 130 ...

Dotted along the River Thames on the edge of Surrey is a buzzing town called Kingston. This winter, the London neighbourhood ...

The 2025 A Celtic Christmas UK tour comes to Gatehouse Theatre in Stafford on Saturday, December 6.

We're about a month out from Halloween, but many people see the late-October holiday as a mere speed bump on the road to Christmas. More than 36% of people say Christmas is their favorite day of the ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

Archaeologists recently found an ancient copper workshop in the Sinai region of Egypt – the land tied to Moses and the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

New insights into an ancient swimming reptile are more than skin deep. An analysis of a 240-million-year-old fossil, published August 29 in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, offers clues to how a ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...