Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native ...

Since the early 20th century, Christmas has evolved from a religious holiday to a hugely popular cultural holiday observed by Christian and secular people across the globe who gather with families, ...

From Pagan Winter Festivals to Christian Celebrations Holidays and rituals have always been universal aspects of the human experience, almost inextricably ...

Trace the Baby New Year tradition's roots from ancient times to today. Learn its full story and meaning right here.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

Today, Sunday, Dec. 21, at 10:03 a.m.,will mark the Winter Solstice, which occurs annually either on the 21st or 22nd of ...

During the winter solstice in ancient Greece, festivals were held to honor the gods Poseidon, Demeter, and Dionysus.

Ancient Greek winter solstice festivals such as Haloa and Poseidon’s month blended astronomy, fertility rites, and the divine ...

How could ancient astronomers observe and describe celestial phenomena with such precision without our modern instruments? This question finds new illumination thanks to Chinese writings nearly three ...

An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...

For centuries, ancient calendars across civilizations hinted at a mysterious 13th montha time cycle believed to influence destiny, energy balance, and cosmic order. Yet somewhere in history, this ...

The carvings were found on a mountaintop in the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico. Getty Images/iStock Photo On the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico, the peak of Cerro Patlachique towers ...