Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

Discover the story of Rajendra Chola III, the last ruler of the Chola Empire, and the final battles that led to the dynasty's ...

If Robert Irwin had not existed, then Dan Brown, or better still Umberto Eco, would surely have had to invent him. In his Memoirs of a Dervish, the roller-blading, pinball-playing polymath reported: ...

Did you know that one of the most fascinating museums in Paris, dedicated to science and technology, is housed in a former medieval cloister? The Museum of Arts and Crafts combines historic ...

Iran is definitely not alone in this. When religion — any religion — is used as a tool to extend one’s hold on power for a long time, people react. The medieval Europe went through the heat of it.

Those who do not learn lessons from history are condemned to repeat the same.” In today’s battle of narratives, it is ...

In the march of time, some people have gone far ahead, while some other people have lagged behind. Why so? Guns, Germs, and Steel is an attempt to answer this question. The author, Jared Diamond, ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

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Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country's first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Since its official launch in 2021, Medieval Dynasty has given players a glimpse of life in the middle ages without any fantasy flourishes. You don't ...