From ancient Celtic legends to blockbuster movies, fairies and elves have always captured the human imagination. But in America, their stories took on an entirely new form. This video explores how ...

Marc Bolan, the English singer-songwriter, had one word that acted as a continual point of return in much of his written ...

The collection holds gold and silver coins, earrings, bracelet fragments, and ingots, suggesting the site may have served as a center for trade and possibly coin minting.

We celebrate Halloween every year, but do you know the origin story? We’re breaking down the history of Halloween and its ...

By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated ...

STORED in Liskeard & District Museum is a talisman, or lucky charm. It’s called the ‘Hap Da’, which is the Cornish for good ...

This small, bronze skeleton is one of only a dozen known examples of an ancient Roman "larva convivalis" — a "banquet ghost" ...

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 ...

Their findings line up perfectly with Rapa Nui oral traditions, which have long claimed the statues literally walked from the ...

The drachma and obol, two cornerstone currencies of ancient Greece, revolutionized trade and symbolized the power and ...

The tradition of trick-or-treating is believed to have originated from the Celtic practice of ‘souling’ and ‘guising.’ During ...