Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

Bulgaria’s Kukeri dancers revive ancient winter rituals Bulgaria comes alive each January as Kukeri dancers take to village ...

Researchers have discovered the residues of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol inside a 2,000-year-old mug, suggesting that ancient Egyptians imbibed hallucinogenic beverages during rituals.

A 2,000-year-old mug produces the first physical evidence that the ancient Egyptians used hallucinogens, proving the old myths to be true, they were definitely getting high. As part of the ...

Greece's Ministry of Culture has announced exciting new discoveries from the 2025 excavations at Ancient Tenea ...

Mark B. Child has sweated more over his dissertation than any other scholar. He has poured out his perspiration in the French Quarter of New Orleans, in tony Georgetown, on a Navajo reservation in ...

The ancient world was shaped not only by empires and monuments but by the strange and symbolic rituals that people believed kept their worlds in balance. Across continents, civilisations practised ...

A study of preserved plant remains found in the biblical home of Goliath has revealed fascinating insights into the mysterious rituals and religious practices of an ancient civilization. The plant ...

Karin Albou’s timely “La Petite Jerusalem,” which unfolds at an almost excessively languid pace, examines how the Jewish and Muslim communities in a small Parisian town are forced by poverty and fate ...