As one of the most subversive filmmakers in Japanese cinema, Sono’s underrated masterpiece is unlike any Japanese film in the ...

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...

Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, will gain "maximum brilliance" at night on Valentine's Day across Kentucky skies ...

In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.

Valentine’s Day is believed to have started in ancient Rome, but not as a day of love. Instead, it was linked to a brutal ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Aciman only lived in Rome for a year; new adventures awaited in (where else?) the Bronx. With help from relatives, he applied ...

Researchers have identified fragments of a Roman helmet dated to the fourth century A.D. among more than 100 weapons that ...

Instead, Valentine’s Day was simply a day to remember the death of a Saint, which was then muddled up thanks to Pope Gelasius ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

More than 800 registered cross-country skiers set a record number of participants for the Engadin Night Race on Thursday March 7th. The Polish double Olympic champion Justyna Kowalczyk wins the race ...