In Bulgaria, Todorovden is popularly known as Horse Easter due to its strong association with horses and equestrian rituals. One of the most significant customs of the holiday is the horse race ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside ...

Deep in the forested mountains of Bulgaria lies the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon. This ancient rock city lies above Bulgaria's Perpereshka River in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains ...

The rules are minimal, with one key historic guideline: no murder. Sacred grounds like churchyards are off-limits, but just about anywhere else is fair game. “You’ve just got to get in there ...