Valentine’s Day is more than romance; it celebrates love in all forms. Its history blends ancient and Christian traditions, ...

The blessing of the candles during Candlemas, or Candelora, as we say in Italian (Image created with DALL-E 2) While firmly grounded in Christian tradition, the Candelora also bears connections to ...

Greek and Roman gods evoked fear, awe and envy. Their names now control trillions of dollars of your money. Janus, Apollo, Jupiter and Ares are some of the most famous names of Greek and Roman ...

We may be at the 59th (LIX) Super Bowl but many are still oblivious to the bunch of apparent letters that change every year.

We may be at the 59th (LIX) Super Bowl but many are still oblivious to the bunch of apparent letters that change every year.

While bag charms are trending again after their rise and fall in the early 2000s, they have a much more extensive history, ...

On Valentine’s Day hearts are everywhere – on cards, cakes, balloons and emojis – but when were they first used to symbolise ...

Prof Suresh Chander The Swastika is one of the oldest and most universally recognized symbols in human history, transcending ...

Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...

The Ancient Graffiti Project, a research team that has included around 70 people over the past several years to locate and study graffiti from the early Roman Empire, has painstakingly documented and ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

Mesoamerican codices, national symbols, and motifs found in older European churches inspire Timo Fahler's mixed-media works.