Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right? Or is its history darker?

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right?

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost ...

Valentine's Day has long been celebrated as a day of romance filled with red roses, heart-shaped candies and chocolate boxes.

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead.

In his magisterial two-volume Political Order books, Francis Fukuyama writes extensively about patronage networks, ...

Valentine’s Day is believed to have started in ancient Rome, but not as a day of love. Instead, it was linked to a brutal ...

Sophie Jackson of the Museum of London Archaeology hailed the find as "one of the most significant discoveries" in recent ...

Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 14th, has evolved from a day with obscure and somewhat sinister roots to a global ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

Valentine’s Day is one of the world’s most commercialised religious holidays – second only perhaps to Christmas. Originally ...