Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The origins of Easter date to the beginnings of ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by Cuban, Colombian and Utrecht geologists among others, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave quite differently. Easter Island consists ...

For the second year running, Christians all over the world will have uneventful Easter celebrations. At the onset of the Covid-19 in the year 2020, the Easter holiday was the first among major ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

But there in the eye of the storm, from Easter week through to his last day ... as uncommonly attuned to a character and the cycles of history as W.B. Yeats he can baffle us all.

On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the Easter Rising, one of the most important events in Irish history, began. Here's a look at some little-known facts about the pivotal Irish event. Five of the ...

Oct. 14—With its complex geometry and designs, Ukrainian Easter eggs originated in pagan times. Artist and ethnographer Sofika Zielyk will discuss the colorful history and tradition of the ...