JULY 24th  is the festival of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of pleasure. His name means "Flower Prince" or even "Flower Child...

THE  23rd of July is the ancient Roman Neptunalia festival, when Romans honored Neptune with feasting and frivolity. Although identified wit...

THE  "Dog Days" are here! In Ancient Egypt, the "Heliacal Rising of Sirius" occurred in mid-July ... but over the course...

ON  21 July we remember Herostratus, whose name is synonymous with all persons who commit heinous crimes for the sole purpose of making thei...

IT IS SAID  that on the night before the mother of Alexander, Olympias, was to be married to King Phillip of Macedonia, she dreamt that a th...

ALEXANDRIA , home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander...

ON JULY 18th   the  Religion of Antinous  honors Saint Caravaggio. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who died under suspicious circumstance...