From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around Loch Ness, it is clear the Picts were fascinated by animals, and careful to render them with great fidelity. All the animals ...

Even if we hear a fair amount of pagan attack on Christianity as stupid or criminal and we do know that some persecutions occur, we shouldn't necessarily assume that all Christians were against ...

The Picts' name first appears ... Julian, the last pagan Emperor of Rome, sent legions to deal with them but to little effect. Within four years they were raiding deep inside Britannia until ...

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter ...

A lot of horror movies are inspired by paganism in some way. One horror movie took things a step further by inventing a new pagan god. The film reinforced a lot of widespread perceptions of ...

Most ancient pagan belief systems were built around ritual and magic, coercive practices intended to achieve a beneficial result. They centered the self. The revolutionary contribution of ...

Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive characteristics and what they were like. We know more facts about Neanderthals than any ...

Desperate Housewives turns 20! Here's a look at the cast, then and now ER turns 30! See where the cast is now, including George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, and more The West Wing turns 25! See ...

rex that spring to mind. But dinosaurs got much, much bigger. But the true champions were the titanosaurs, the last-surviving sauropod group. Patagotitan, for example, was nearly half as long again as ...

“Like him, the knights of the Round Table were despised and forsworn ... Then there’s the Franks and the Picts and John ...

A new Mexican drama on Netflix, We Were Kings, has a theme that we’ve seen many times: People who live in a poor part of a major city have big plans to provide for their families and ambitions ...