Historian Tony McMahon delves into humanity’s enduring obsession with prophecies of doom and the mystics, seers and celestial signs we’ve trusted to warn us of the end.

The Aztec calendar stone is one of the most recognisable artifacts from ancient Mexico, plastered on t-shirts, tourist tat, ...

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

Sweeten the holiday season with an Advent calendar. Offering a small treat to open for the 12 or 24 days leading up to Christmas, our top picks for 2025 Advent calendars can bring the spirit of the ...

Not so many years ago, a typical advent calendar was a basic cardboard box containing some chocolates or other candies behind little daily windows. Today, advent calendars have evolved into creatively ...

Not so many years ago, a typical advent calendar was a basic cardboard box containing some chocolates or other candies behind little daily windows. Puzzles? Sports? Birdsong? The variety of new ...

Long Beach’s annual point-in-time tally of homeless people will once again take place in January — and the city is looking for volunteers to help out. The Department of Health and Human Services is ...