A new year once began with a lamb.Not on January 1, and not with fireworks. In parts of the ancient Near East, people marked ...

As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, the scary and the haunted. Ghosts, zombies, skeletons and witches are prominently displayed in yards, windows, stores and community ...

Halloween is taken from the ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. It marked the end of harvest time as well as the start of winter. By lore, it was said that on the night of Samhain, the line ...

Irish emigrants brought Easter customs including lamb dinners, Hot Cross Buns and egg traditions to countries around the ...

The discovery of Iron Age burial sites in France has had a dramatic impact on the archaeological community, as evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years after the discovery of an Iron Age settlement in the Czech Republic, archaeologists have found new evidence of ...

The origins of Halloween traditions go back to an ancient Celtic festival involving animal sacrifice and a cave of demons in Rathcroghan, Ireland. Mike McCarthy, a tour guide at Rathcroghan, joins us.

Halloween night fills the streets with trick-or-treaters as neighborhoods shine with spooky setups at every doorstep. What began in ancient Celtic rituals has become a modern tradition, now blending ...

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...

More than 20 years after the discovery of an Iron Age settlement in the Czech Republic, archaeologists have found new evidence of what life was like for ancient humans. Experts have now identified an ...