Dignitaries, including prime ministers and presidents from around the world, descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the ...

High school students were exempted from their final history exam after teachers spent a year teaching them about the wrong ...

“India has had very long, ancient, rich and vibrant culture and traditions that start from around 5000 BC,” said Sanjeev Khanna, faculty adviser for the association. “The Indian culture and traditions ...

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

Halloween comes every year with treats, spookiness and costumes. But why do we celebrate it on Oct. 31? And what does Samhain ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Dia de los Muertos events honoring the dead have a long history, but in Arizona they are tied to the more recent Chicano ...

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

Discover how Halloween evolved from ancient Celtic rituals to today’s festive traditions, and learn the origins behind ...