The Roman festival Lupercalia is thought to be the origins of Valentine’s Day, where men sacrificed goats and made whips from their skins, while women would line up to receive lashes as part of a fertility ritual
Russian explorers unexpectedly measured high levels of radiation in abandoned military bunkers; the level of radiation exceeded the permissible level several thousand times
The Lin Family Mansion and Garden is the largest and most completely preserved traditional home in Taiwan
The strange sarcophagi of the ancient world
The Night Witches of the Soviet Air Forces: the female fighter pilots of WWII
Dating back to the 1200s, the Aberdour Castle is one of the oldest standing castles in Scotland
The birth and history of Christmas lights
The Burning of Zozobra is a unique cultural event staged annually during the historic Fiestas de Santa Fe
Vlochos not a new discovery but a city worth exploring nonetheless
Pope Stephen IV exhumed his predecessor, found him guilty of heresy and punished his corpse
