Sons of Echo,” in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don’t have a monopoly on ...

Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, younger sister of Queen Sofia of Spain and the late former King Constantine of Greece, ...

The Minoans of Bronze Age Crete were unique in the Mediterranean for their rituals, including those pertaining to the snake ...

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

A heart-warming video from Hyderabad’s Old City shows a Muslim woman dancing alongside Hindu women during Vaikunta Ekadasi celebrations, capturing a moment of cultural unity that has gone viral online ...

Holidays and rituals have always been universal aspects of the human experience, almost inextricably linked to being part of a community, an organised society, and, eventually, a culture. In the ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

The Dance of Zalongo, the mass suicide of Souliote women and children, is one of the most infamous events in modern Greek history. The Souliotes were an Eastern Orthodox community of the area of Souli ...

The term "bowdlerization," meaning censorship, originated from efforts to rewrite works like Shakespeare's plays for "family reading." Throughout history, men have worn what is now considered drag in ...