Once Christianity was established, the first recorded Christmas that celebrated the birth of Jesus is often cited to occur in ...

America’s debts — Revolutionary and Republican — to Rome resonate 250 years after Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. Mr. Iaconis is an author and educator who embraces Giuseppe Verdi’s dictum: ...

Christmas is one of the most celebrated festivals in the world, recognised not only as a religious observance but also as a ...

Aside from Easter, Christmas is perhaps Christianity’s most sacred date. As a celebration of Christ’s birth, the holiday is ...

In ancient Rome, it was medicinal; swallowed for coughs or spread on aching joints. In India, Hindus have been offering Lord ...

Chelleh Night, or Shab-e Yalda, takes place at the time of the winter solstice, around December 21, the longest night of the ...

From Pagan Winter Festivals to Christian Celebrations Holidays and rituals have always been universal aspects of the human experience, almost inextricably ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

Beneath the waters of Alexandria’s harbor, on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, an ancient 'party boat' has been found.

The Vatican has announced the countdown for when it will close four sacred 'portals' during a Catholic ritual first started ...

The copper alloy sitella was discovered amid the charred remains of a structure destroyed by fire around the late third century AD at Carthago Nova, the ancient Roman name for modern Cartagena, ...

Ch. Sambhajinagar, Dec 20 (UNI) The President of the ‘Muslim Numinda Council’ (Muslim Representative Council) and All India Ameer of Wahdat-e-Islami, Ziauddin Siddiqui, today strongly condemned the ...