If “paganism” sounds like one specific religion with a clear founder and a tidy instruction manual… surprise! It’s actually ...

Excavated at the Medieval hilltop city were three inner walls of what was a monumental structure, likely an ancient pagan temple, underneath a parking lot. Their whereabouts were pinpointed by Douglas ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...

Burma/Mayanmar has opened up to tourism in the last year or two and record numbers are now visiting this beautiful, mesmerising country. All visitors to Burma will visit the ancient kingdom of Pagan ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." As the sun sets on October 31, spirits will rise to haunt the living—or so the story goes. It’s the ...

Archaeologists in Central Europe recently uncovered an ancient grave – reopened not by modern looters, but by medieval Poles over 1,000 years ago. The excavation took place at the Nowy Chorów cemetery ...