Cultures, Popular Stories

An amazing festival in India in which elephants are decorated in body paint, jewels and velvets...

Lion Dances have been used for centuries to bring in the New Year and celebrate new ventures, but nobody knows for sure how they began.

The eerie and entertaining myth behind The Three Sisters rock formation in the Blue Mountains, Australia.

What price beauty? One of the most extreme – and painful – customs practiced in the name of aesthetics was the ancient art of Chinese foot binding.

Distinctive because of their long lip plugs, the Zo’é are a threatened tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest.

A look back at posters aimed at stamping out the sexually transmitted diseases of syphilis and gonorrhea in the early to mid-20th century.

The indigenous tribe of the Penan in Borneo has stopped an oil palm giant from deforesting their land.

The wonderful singing bowls of Tibet and Asia, whose tones are truly music to the ears!

Seven deadly poisons tribesmen throughout the world use to tip their arrows and blowgun darts with – a practice that has been going on for millennia...

Bodies hanging in coffins from cliff faces, with wooden effigies guarding bodies placed in caves, and trees as the resting place of children...

The Mursi tribe of Ethiopia's Omo Valley are one of the few societies in the world who continue to wear lip plates, which can measure more than 20 cm in diameter!

The Tengzug Shrine in the Tongo Hills is very sacred for the Talensis people. To worship there, one must be nude and very comfortable with animal blood and waste.

Body modification takes many forms, but surely one of the oddest comes in the form of the neck rings worn by the Kayan women of Thailand.

Learn how and why some tribes ate human flesh from the people who consumed it in Papua New Guinea's Western Province

Researchers have found that hunter-gatherer societies show how we humans grew culturally and evolved over time in well mixed groups. Find out more...

The Bushmen of Botswana have been marginalized and pushed out of their traditional lands on the Kalahari Game Reserve.

Incredible images of an uncontacted tribe that could slide out of existence if illegal logging is not stopped in their protected area of Peru.

Celebrations and festivals are an integral part of Indian culture. Read on to learn about Makar Sankranti, where kite-flying lights up the sun-filled sky.

Torture and animals being cooked alive aren't what most parents consider good bedtime story subjects. Yet they have been loved for centuries in nursery rhymes.

Despite books becoming obsolete, they have recorded incredible truths about how culture has changed over time. We can learn a lot about ourselves through these trends.