Ukrainian soldiers discovered ancient Greek artifacts during fortification works in Ukraine, in what is believed to be a ...

Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.

But they believe he was born in the fifth century as Maewyn Succat. He wasn’t Irish; rather he was born in Wales, the son of a Roman-British ... for the Irish Citizen Army’s flag.

St Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17 because it’s believed to be the anniversary of his death in the year 461. Irish ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...

But they believe he was born in the fifth century as Maewyn Succat. He wasn’t Irish; rather he was born in Wales, the son of ...

The best account we have is the Life of St. Patrick by a scholar named Muirchú. This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

Saint Patrick was born in the 5th century in a Britain ... Irish people have marked the Roman Catholic feast day of St Patrick on March 17 since the 9th century, but the modern celebrations ...