Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces ... The celebrated British artist believes that instead of erasing history, art should challenge it to spark debate. A mega project is ...

Although today's commercialized Christmas is considered distinctly American, the festival was banned in the nation's earliest days. New England's Puritan leaders considered it a pagan or papist ...

But what is the origin of this ... many of the pagan traditions were adapted and Christianized. The celebration of the winter solstice was transformed into Christmas, and the Yule log became ...

History tells us that the celebration of Christmas as the birth of our savior, Jesus, was initiated in the fourth century as Roman Christians appropriated the pagan festival of “Saturnalia ...

Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. But these ...