Valentine’s Day is one of the world’s most commercialised religious holidays – second only perhaps to Christmas. Originally ...

In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th and is thought to be connected to the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia.

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right? Or is its history darker?

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right?

Our enemies, ancient and contemporary, parade us around not out of kindness or magnanimity but to humiliate and destroy our ...

The tradition of sending messages, gifts and expressions of love on Valentine’s Day goes back to at least the 15th century.

So this week, on February 11, when the Vatican published a letter from the pope to US bishops warning that Trump’s mass ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead.

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

Although Valentine’s Day often revolves around those in relationships, several single Bobcats still find joy in the holiday and celebrate with their friends and family.