Castles aren’t just relics of medieval warfare or backdrops for fantasy novels. They’re living monuments to ambition, power, ...

When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Chateau Laroche—known to locals as Loveland Castle—rises from the Ohio landscape like a fever dream, a stone fortress that would look more at home in the European countryside than the American Midwest ...

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

Disney can make even animated food look mouthwatering, and it helps that most of its concoctions are based off of real dishes ...

Dan Houser, the former lead writer of the GTA and Red Dead Redemption games, has a lot to say about those titles.

And let's not forget those brutal punishments that make horror movie scenes seem tame. The Medieval period, often idealized ...

Chateau Laroche—known to locals and visitors alike as Loveland Castle—rises from the Ohio landscape like a fever dream, a stone fortress that would look more at home in the European countryside than ...

Let's go back to the Middle Ages to look at some dishes people still enjoy today. Find out if one of your favorite meals is ...

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

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