No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

The olive oil award given to Olympic champions came from the sacred groves of Athena, the patroness of Athens, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In general, ancient ...

From California's sequoias to India’s sacred groves, ancient trees are vital climate allies, cultural icons, and biodiversity strongholds — yet they’re vanishing fast.

By the 7th Century BC, there were at least five different varieties of same-sex relations in Ancient Greece. The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite military unit comprised of 300 male lovers in ...

In general, ancient Greeks considered olive trees "sacred," and they symbolized Zeus, the god of the sky and, later, the god of the Olympics, according to the Journal of Olympic History. More ...