By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second centuries, wrote in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars that Augustus ...

Halloween (the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain) marks the start of the darkest time of year because it sits evenly between ...

Catnip for diners and an economical delivery system for high-ticket ingredients, creative pasta dishes are driving business ...

A stay at the Xara Palace Relais & Châteaux hotel in Malta's walled town of Mdina truly delivers an experience in living ...

The Italian island of Sardinia sits in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, gazing at Italy from a distance. Surrounded by a ...

Northern Portugal’s Douro Valley is home to a wide range of cultural experiences — whether it’s hiking through pine forests, ...

Imbolc then is translated as ‘in the belly of the mother’ – like the seeds of plants beginning to move in thebelly of Mother Earth. Imbolc is also often celebrated on the full moon in February which ...

Amid a global conservative turn, artists are disrupting the pastoral genre and its social order of class, gender and race ...

When farmers began domesticating animals, those cattle, sheep, and goats became sources of milk and meat but also ... that more than a reliance on meat in ancient human diets fueled the brain ...

The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.