Many of the Easter traditions Christians celebrate today date back to the early days of Christianity. Karl Gehring/The Denver Post via Getty Images Easter brings together an unlikely cadre of ...

Claims that the gospel narratives were directly copied from earlier pagan deities—such as Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, and Mithras—frequently circulate in popular media. However, critical historical ...

Paganism did not simply disappear when Christianity became dominant or when Western Roman rule ended in 476 AD. Pagan intellectuals and powerful elites continued operating inside Roman society, while ...

Though it features illustrations of a menagerie of animals that carry Jewish symbolism, an ancient Roman mosaic discovered in Lod, Israel, in 1996, is not a religious work, according to the ...

Cool dancing, everyone … can we open our prezzies now? Richard Milnes, CC BY-SA In the movie The Life of Brian (1979), Reg, played by John Cleese, asks fellow members of the People’s Front of Judea: … ...

When Mustafa Şahin first saw photographs of the submerged ancient church under the waves of Turkey's Lake Iznik, he couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. The head of archaeology at Bursa Uludağ ...

Burma/Mayanmar has opened up to tourism in the last year or two and record numbers are now visiting this beautiful, mesmerising country. All visitors to Burma will visit the ancient kingdom of Pagan ...