Sure, some holiday color pairings are obvious—red, white and blue for the Fourth of July, or green for St. Patrick’s Day. But Halloween’s iconic shades feel a little more mysterious. Is it just about ...

However, due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Office of Public Works is live-streaming the winter solstice sunrise from within the chamber at the neolithic passage tomb on December 20th, 21st and ...

Over 6,000 years old and still a site for worship, Stonehenge remains a unique place. As the first rays of the sun shine into ...

Did you know that some of the oldest human-made structures on Earth align precisely with the rising sun on the summer ...

In Romania, dancers wearing crowns of wheat gathered for the Sanziene, or “Fairies," a pre-Christian, pagan celebration in ...

With the rise of Christianity, particularly during the Christianisation of Europe, the Church often integrated existing pagan ...

Updated June 22, 2pm: Crowds descended on Lake Pertobe for Warrnambool's fourth annual Solstice Search Party on Saturday, June 21, 2025 ...

Winter solstice arrives in Australia, as icy temperatures hit the country’s south east Australia’s shortest day of the year has arrived, bringing with it icy temperatures, frost, snow and ...

From Stone Age astronomy to Viking law and Roman goddesses, cultures across time have honored the longest day of the year ...

The latter, dubbed Erika the Red and measuring 15 metres from dragon head to stern, has been hand-built by the very community members who plan to set it alight on June 21 to mark the winter solstice.

Humans have been celebrating these events for millennia and on modern-day solstice days, ancient and new traditions mix around the world. Some of the best-known summer solstice festivities take place ...