Every year that my boys were in elementary school, we would make sugar skulls for Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) for both of their classes. It’s a pretty simple process to make the skulls ...

During the week of Oct. 29, most students in the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District celebrated one holiday: Halloween. However, the students in Maria Lecceardone-Brown’s Spanish classes ...

Contrary to popular belief, the Day of the Dead is not the Mexican version of ... and the ball on the top represents the skull. The lines also look like the tears that people shed when they ...

Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead. Known as ...

The day’s main attraction are 100 altars (ofrendas), erected along the avenues of mausoleums. Adorned with photographs, ornate decorations, sugar skulls ... Young and the Dead, that details ...

raising intriguing questions about the identity of its long-dead teenage owner. The well-preserved skull and some skeleton fragments were found in Ephesus, Turkey, buried in a sarcophagus in the ...