As the thirty-second Olympiad kicks off in Tokyo today, after a year’s delay, we look back at the history of the Olympic flame – an ins ...

From the Great Wall of China to Ancient Greece, smoke signals were one of the earliest forms of visual communication – a fascinating medium ...

The lesser-known form of traditional Chinese medicine is often used in breech births. Many of us are now familiar with cupping: placing glas ...

In Slavic folklore and myth, this supernatural spirit can bring doom or blessing to its captor. What is it? The Firebird, which appears in n ...

An emeritus professor at Arizona State University, Stephen Pyne specialises in environmental history, the history of exploration and – above ...

Videos of roaring fireplaces have gone viral in the past decade, but the peculiar phenomenon of fake fire television dates back far longer. ...

This enduring Greek myth involves a fearsome female fire-breathing hybrid beast. What is it? The Chimera (‘she-goat’ in Ancient Greek) is a ...

As much as a certain shade of blue, fire was aesthetic perfection for the artist Yves Klein. In 1961, a year before his death, he travelled ...

Fire and storytelling have been intimately linked for thousands of years, with campfires creating a new context in which culture could flour ...

This fire-fuelled Unesco festival is all about strengthening community ties.  What is it? The summer solstice fire festivals of the Pyrenees ...

In the first of an ongoing series focusing on people who have made fire their profession, we meet Canadian artist Steven Spazuk, whose exqui ...

Over the past five years, Eldvarm has become a hearth and home for functional, high-design fireplace accessories. Now, founder Louise Varre ...