The New York Tattoo Convention, held during three days in October, just gives you candy. Beer and coffee sold at the front, ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on ... a series of correlations between the designs engraved on these cylinders, dating back around ...

They observed lingering customs in rural areas of Britain and Ireland and searched medieval texts for evidence that these practices and beliefs had ancient pagan roots. They mixed stories of magic ...

Then an ancient 14.5 kilometer-long wall was discovered at the site, according to research led by French archaeologist Guillaume Charloux published earlier this year. For a new study published in the ...

But such misrepresentation of the North is unfair. Armagh – once a sectarian hot spot – is an ancient city, with deep pagan Celtic roots as well as a seminal relationship with Irish Christianity.

It was a Hampden classic in the Scottish Cup semi-final last season, a pulsating Premiership encounter just weeks ago and now Celtic and Aberdeen go to battle again - is it too much to ask for a ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study of fossil pollen trapped in ancient mud.

All Irish soldiers are "safe and well" after a rocket struck their UN peacekeeping base in Lebanon on Thursday morning, the Taoiseach (Irish PM) Simon Harris has said. Hundreds of Irish ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lisa Bitel, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE CONVERSATION ...