For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover ...

The long-held desire to be better When it comes to ancient forms of New Year's resolutions, "the logic here is very much along the principle of 'start as you mean to go on,'" Moss said. "Throughout ...

The answer, it turns out, traces back 3,000 to 4,000 years, to the ancient Babylonian festival ... professor of Roman history in the department of classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

After November 5 the witches of the world hauled out the cauldrons, stoked the fires and gathered close; a new front was ...

"I stepped on it and I thought it was a log." When North Carolina teens Eli Hill, Jackson Holcomb, and Creek Hyatt headed out ...

While the Vatican's sacred traditions and time-honoured rituals are elevated to their most beautiful heights, the politicking of the world's so-called holiest men in Conclave isn't far removed from ...

One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar sheets: ice cores. These frozen time capsules preserve air bubbles from thousands of years ago ...

The humble anchovy has a long culinary history, which dates back thousands ... and they can work extraordinarily well behind the scenes," he tells ABC Radio National's Late Night Live.

Fierce wildfires fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds are sending residents fleeing from burning homes through flames, ...