Day of the Dead is not Halloween. Dia de Muertos is a very personal holiday to its celebrants, who stay surrounded by family.

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

As a child Mary loved writing in code. As a captive queen, it became essential to her survival. Since childhood, Mary Stuart had enjoyed writing in cipher. Later in life, as Queen of Scots and a ...

At age 15, Jonathan Clay marched into his parents’ Magnolia, Texas, bedroom at 9 p.m. to announce: “Zach and I are going to be musicians.” Clay’s mother responded: “OK, honey.” He and his friend, Zach ...

It’s difficult to imagine the history buried in Rural Cemetery in Worcester, Mass., so let Preservation Worcester recount it for you. Preservation Worcester started hosting guided tours on October 17 ...

The angels have officially arrived. And while the pink carpet was a sight to behold, the runway itself is where the magic truly happens as the models strut their stuff in the most eye-catching of ...

The family of a teenage Israeli soldier, who spent more than two years thinking he might have survived the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, only found out that he had died when his remains were returned this ...

The Philadelphia Phillies may be out of the MLB postseason, but they're still in the hearts of everyone from ABC's "Abbott Elementary." The sweet, award-winning sitcom (Wednesdays, 8:30 ET/PT) will ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...

Ecuador on Monday reported two attacks that left 14 people dead and 17 wounded, with some of the victims showing signs of torture. The South American nation is a point of departure for cocaine ...

The 16 people believed to have died in a Tennessee plant explosion last week were identified Monday by officials. The explosion occurred around 7:45 a.m. Friday at an Accurate Energetic Systems ...

Diane Keaton always knew she didn’t fit the mold of the classical beautiful movie star and lamented, before she was even in high school, that the “attractive genes” in her family had passed on to her ...