He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius.

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

Hecate was a goddess for ancient Greek religion and mythology, and not a witch as some associate her with Halloween.

The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All ...

Halloween famously comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain, but does Samhain itself come from an Ancient Greek festival?

Each year on Oct. 31, a large majority of the country dresses up in fun and spooky costumes to watch their favorite scary movie. Billions of dollars nationally are spent on candy and decorations. But ...

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the ...

Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week. By Aimee Ortiz Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, were busy “de-junglefying” the ...