The history of cultural interactions was a complicated web of connections across regions that were formed largely by trade.

Easter symbols have ancient roots Early church adapted some non-Christian traditions The world's Christian population stands at 2.3 billion Easter, the single-most important day in the Christian ...

Torches are Christian symbols, they’ve been adopted as a Christian ... And that’s because ancient Romans would bury their dead a night. As time went on, the Christians borrowed a lot of ...

As the main symbol of the pre-Christian ... horses have been symbols of intelligence, strength, endurance, spirit, and majesty. Though its symbolic origin dates to ancient Greece, horses are ...

A rare full set of ancient Egyptian astrological symbols has been uncovered under ... zodiac are very rare in Egyptian temples," Professor Christian Leitz, an Egyptologist of the University ...

Two enigmatic 1,500-year-old human figurines carved in rare ebony wood from India or Sri Lanka and likely made in Africa have been uncovered in the Negev, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced ...

The ancient Celts, the people who lived in Britain and Ireland from 500BC to 400AD, considered their Celtic symbols and signs ... combines the traditional Christian cross with a ring through ...

The effects of ancient slavery, on the other hand ... Some of these collars bear Christian symbols like the chi-rho (☧), which combines the first two letters of Jesus’ name in Greek.

The colorful Easter eggs you might decorate with your family are actually symbols of new life and rebirth. Ancient Christian communities in Mesopotamia would stain eggs red to represent the ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope offered a message of healing during ...