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Today's holiday culture wars continue an ancient struggle, as Nat Parry explores in this adaptation from his book, How Christmas Became Christmas: The Pagan and Christian Origins of the Beloved Holiday. By Nat Parry Medium By focusing their wrath on what they perceive as “creeping secular

Hiding pickles? Lords of mischief? Stacker compiled a list of 10 Christmas traditions that are no longer widely observed using various sources.

What's the grossest food you've ever tried? From milk-soaked lungs to baked brains and rose petals, these disgusting ancient foods will have it beat!

Today's holiday culture wars continue an ancient struggle, as Nat Parry explores in this adaptation from his new book, How Christmas Became Christmas: The Pagan and Christian Origins of the Beloved Holiday. By Nat Parry Medium In what may be the first salvo in this year’s War on Christmas,

Pompeii Is Famous for Its Ruins and Bodies, but What About Its Wine? Pompeii is famed for plaster-cast bodies, ruins, frescoes, and the rare snapshot it provides of a rather typical ancient Roman city. But less famous is its evidence of viticulture. Wild grapevines probably existed across peninsular Italy since prehistory, but it is likely the Etruscans and colonizing Greeks promoted wine-making with domesticated grapes as early as 1000 BCE. Pompeii, preserved after the eruption of Mount Vesuvi...