Valentine’s feast in the middle of the short month to "Christianize" the pagan celebration of Lupercalia, a fertility festival, History Channel states. At the end of the 5th century ...

Valentine’s feast in the middle of the short month to "Christianize" the pagan celebration of Lupercalia, a fertility festival, History Channel states. At the end of the 5th century, the ...

However, it is also believed that the Catholic Church chose to place St. Valentine’s feast in the middle of the short month to "Christianize" the pagan celebration of Lupercalia, a fertility festival, ...

UNLV history professor Elizabeth Nelson separates facts about the effects of marketing ... But historians argue that — like Christmas, Easter, and many other modern holidays — Christians in the past ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

That's right — the day of love actually has a dark history that wasn't all chocolates and roses. In fact, romance had very little to do with the holiday. Dating back to ancient Rome, the holiday ...

The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or ...

Archaeologist Melinda Zeder of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History argues that settlements such as Hallan Çemi mark the start of the long process of pig ...

Now, researchers claim to have found the origins of water in the earliest moments of the universe. According to scientists from the University of Portsmouth, water first formed in the debris of ...

The history of Valentine's Day is mushy. It's been linked to a 12th-century poem about birds mating, the Christian-martyr-turned-Saint Valentine and a deadly fertility ritual in ancient Rome ...

Right? Or is the history darker, marked by Roman bacchanalia, martyrs and lies? Innumerable legends claim to explain the origins of Valentine’s Day, but as is the case with legends, they leave many ...