The Mursi tribe in Ethiopia's Omo Valley cuts girls' lower lips to insert clay plates, symbolising beauty and status. They ...

Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her ...

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Pat Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo opened up about the secrets to their long-lasting marriage in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. The collaborating couple has been married for over 40 years ...

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread ...

While interhuman relationships go back to the early years of civilization, marriage has only become commonplace in the recent annals of history. Evidence suggests that marriage as an institution ...