Chelleh Night, or Shab-e Yalda, takes place at the time of the winter solstice, around December 21, the longest night of the ...

The Aravalli range is widely known as the oldest mountain system in India. However, several other mountain ranges in the ...

Explore how ancient floods along the Vaigai river may have led to the abandonment of the Keezhadi settlement in Tamil Nadu.

An ancient migration tradition is threatened by a new rare earth venture – and the Sami people can only hope a legal challenge will save it ...

Language often provides us with words that perfectly describe an entire lifestyle or attitude in one word. One such ...

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

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Scientists group these dragon stones into three main types: fish-shaped, hide shaped, and hybrid. Fish-shaped stones tend to appear at higher spots near mountain springs, while hide-shaped stones ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and ...

Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

For nearly a century, 41 ancient human skeletons from the Guar Kepah shell middens remained in boxes and display cases across ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...