Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure. The findings were published in the journal Medieval Archaeology. According ...

However, the most disturbing and controversial pagan Yule rituals may have been the sacrifice ... One such tactic was to change the actual date of the birth of Jesus, which historians believe ...

When the early Christian church celebrated the birth of Jesus, it easily adopted the date of Dec. 25 and the theme of returning light, life and hopeful celebration from ancient ...