The tradition of decorating a Christmas tree was attributed to Prince Albert, the German husband to Queen Victoria, during ...

Samothrace, a small, rocky Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, has a storied past that belies its diminutive size.

Romans placed them around temples to honor ... According to legend, the gods used mistletoe to resurrect Odin’s son Baldur from the dead. So Baldur’s mother Frigg, the goddess of love, made the plant ...

Ra was considered the first pharaoh of the world. Legend has it ... She says: "Therefore, every solar symbol in ancient Egypt ...

One of the earliest records of the pom-pom is from the Viking era in the 8th Century from the discovery of a small statue of ...

NOW that Christmas has just passed, we can now look deeper into the historical roots of and practices performed during the holiday. Celebrated by billions of people globally, Christmas is widely seen ...

Plenty of gruesome events that also happened on a Friday that 13th further stoked its unlucky reputation: the arrest of the ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ... elevated to the status of gods at the shrine in a ceremony ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this ...

Christmas, celebrated on December 25, marks Jesus Christ's birth, symbolizing hope, peace, and divine love. The holiday ...