Despite their seemingly secular modern-day iteration — featuring wine, chocolate or other products — Advent calendars ...

Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native ...

Archaeologists in Tiel uncovered a vast 4,000-year-old sanctuary used to track the sun’s position throughout the year. Built ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

Palaeographical studies reveal that the inscription has a combination of 14th Century Odia and Telugu script features, ...

Avowed 's at its best when it embraces the awe-inspiring, fantastical potential of fantasy and tells grandiose tales of eras ...

A rich calendar of events for the Christmas holidays at the Pompeii Archaeological Park for families, children, and adults.

Before Hannukah, many have dubbed the lull in holidays as "Jewish Book Month." With so many excellent Jewish novels to ...

Ancient coffin wood turn out to be climate archives, revealing a long-forgotten wet period that helped power the rise of ...

On December 11, Orthodox believers celebrate the day of memory of the Holy Martyr Seraphim. On this day, special prohibitions ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

Liza Frank, author of Household Lore, talks us through everything from Christmas trees and mince pies to divination during ...