An ancient Chinese tradition is finding new life on smartphones. A creative technologist has developed an app that mimics a grandmother's tear-off almanac. This digital tool allows users to experience ...

The names of the days in Greek represent a historical shift, with Christian traditions deliberately overwriting the pagan calendar.

In addition to cycling through 12 animals each year, the Chinese zodiac also rotates between the five traditional Chinese ...

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

Explore how early humans tracked seasons using sun shadows, stars like the Pleiades, plant blooms, and animal behaviors before modern calendars.

Frye Art Museum’s trove of 19th- and 20th-century European and American floral still lifes get their moment in the sun.

The timing of Israel’s strike, days before the holiday, prompted religious and political figures to invoke themes from the ...

In classical Rome, and in other times and cultures, full moons were thought to cause madness in people and animals, as seen ...

Hindus are currently celebrating Holi, widely known as the festival of colors and one of the world’s oldest living celebrations — a joyful annual event rooted in ancient myth, spiritual renewal and ...

As we spring forward, Seattle’s museums are turning a new leaf with major new group exhibits — including one that blooms with ...

At first blush, the structures in New Mexico built by the Chacoan people and those in Ohio traced to the Hopewell culture bear little resemblance. The Chacoans, accommodating the arid desert of their ...