After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

Sex and relationship expert Dr Caroline West writes about the ancient festival of Saturnalia, which takes place on 17 ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The Greeks did not invent wrestling but they did bring it to a whole new level. They made it into an art form with their ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

Read on to see the world's oldest man-made structures that are still in use, from Roman amphitheatres to Chinese temples...

Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in ...

Some atheists have stated that Christmas was simply copied from Grecco-Roman pagan holidays like Saturnalia, but that is ...

Archaeologists anticipate further discoveries during excavations that will reveal more about the heritage of Nicaea.

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Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...