People have been left stunned after learning the origins of a common rude hand gesture - especially given how it has managed to keep its original meaning for centuries ...

The middle finger gesture is one of the world's most recognised insults, but few people know where it actually comes from and ...

(CNN) — If you’ve ever “flipped the bird,” you have something in common with ancient Greeks. It was around 2,500 years ago that the naughty Greeks developed a phallic gesture to offend, taunt and ...

British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson once said that the first man who insulted another person instead of "knocking out [their] brains without a word" actually laid the groundwork for ...