The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

Halloween, one of the most popular celebrations of the year, traces its origins to an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain.

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

A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient vegetation was ...

Meet the man who now holds the world record for visiting the most gyms in 24 hours in one city - a whopping 52. Leo Robertson ...

It’s the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. That traditional belief has morphed over the centuries ...

As the spooky holiday took Silicon Valley by storm, CEOs and founders of some of the world’s leading tech ... with origins tracing back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.

There is a belief that Halloween originated from an ancient Celtic harvest festival ... famous Halloween events in Scotland immerses visitors in the weird and wonderful world of Dark Circus. The ...

Celtic blessings are the perfect way to describe the dark element of this Irish festival and we hope that this poem and blessing will bring you a very spooky but happy Halloween. The ancient ...

Halloween is not an ancient Celtic ... throughout the world. But behind the commercialism lies an actual custom that goes back centuries — although it does not originate in Celtic nations ...

One of the earliest references is an 18th-century account of an eponymous Jack, who tricked the devil one too many times and was condemned to wander the world ... to the ancient Celtic past ...

A Glasgow businessman who helped broker the deal that saved Celtic in the 1990s has sold ... the seat upon which ancient kings of Scotland were crowned, since 1950, when a group of four ...