In India, dance acts as a powerful vehicle for politics, philosophy, festivals, rituals, identity, and entertainment. But ...

The Byzantine imperial court celebrated Christmas with ceremonies and feasts in the capital of Constantinople.

Archaeologists have recently publicized the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy, calling the discovery one ...

But did you know that the tale of Christmas probably goes back to the ancient city of Rome? Yep, without the Saturnalia ...

The inscription on the silver amulet provides some of the oldest-known evidence of Christian communities living north of the ...

Archeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the ...

An amazingly crafted head of a large statue of the Greek goddess of fortune, Tike, was found in Bulgaria. The statue element ...

This Dorset Christ pulls together all the hopes of the ancient world, the deepest of all human hopes: that death is only part of a larger story that will culminate in abundance of life and even ...

Cold Moon', will be the last full moon of the year, marking the end of the celestial calendar. Jupiter is to shine beside it.

The metro system in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki opened Saturday featuring driverless trains, and tens of thousands of people braved blustery, rainy weather to wait outside the stations ...

Authorities on the Greek islands Rhodes and Lemnos have declared a state of emergency after powerful storms caused extensive flooding and infrastructure damage ATHENS, Greece -- Authorities on the ...

As such, when the Greek pantheon was adopted by new towns who had already revered another deity, parts of their personality — and their relationships — were then transferred to Zeus (much in the same ...