The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All ...

Halloween comes every year with treats, spookiness and costumes. But why do we celebrate it on Oct. 31? And what does Samhain ...

Halloween famously comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain, but does Samhain itself come from an Ancient Greek festival?

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

Halloween, known for its spooky costumes, carved pumpkins, and trick-or-treating, actually has roots that go back more than 2 ...

Far from being drunken Iron Age louts, more than 2000 years ago the ancient Celts already had one of the most geospatially-advanced civilizations yet known. The Celts not only carried on the classical ...

Hundreds of gold and silver coins, along with jewelry and other artifacts, have been found in the Czech Republic at what ...

This aerial view shows the funerary complex where archaeologists discovered a Celtic prince's tomb dating to the fifth century B.C. This aerial view shows the funerary complex where archaeologists ...

Direct evidence for what people ate and drank in ancient times has traditionally been hard to come by. But now, new technology is enabling scientists to cast light on the consumption habits of people ...