Ever wonder why we celebrate Yuletide with traditions we’re all familiar with? Here are 11 interesting things you never knew about Christmas.

A trove of Black Sea shipwrecks were found pristinely preserved for centuries. Read about their stories and how they were discovered.

A family feud has been raging over who wrote “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the classic poem that dazzles kids with sugar plums and flying reindeer.

Celtic goddess Brigid became St. Brigid of Kildare in 450 AD, but she never lost her goddess qualities. How did this ancient deity survive?

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is the enormous glistening ash tree that cradles the nine realms of the cosmos within its branches and roots.

The Kepler space telescope detected unprecedented anomalies of Tabby’s Star, and even the scientific community has theories of a solar alien megastructure.

King Solomon had more than $60 trillion in gold around 970 BCE. Explorers have searched for millennia for the lost mine of Ophir. Why hasn’t it been found?

Witch prickers drove long needles into accused witches in public in search of the devil’s mark hoping to convict someone of being a witch.