Popular culture often paints Medieval Western Europe as a dark, backward time of ignorance, but is that accurate? This video ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Archaeologists have found a lost Silk Road settlement including the remains of a submerged necropolis within the world's ...

Divers exploring Lake Issyk-Kul in the Tianshan Mountains of eastern Kyrgyzstan found the ruins of a sunken city known as ...

The discovery represents one of the most significant underwater archaeological finds in Central Asia, shedding light on the region's medieval past and the devastating natural forces that shaped its ...

As the cradle of democracy, rational philosophy and theater, Greece laid the foundations of Western thought. It influenced ...

When Civilization 7 launched, its biggest competitors in the genre perhaps were Civ 6, Civ 5, and even Civ 4. We have had other efforts from elsewhere, but if you want to play a game that’s better ...

This piece is the last of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Every entry in “Sid Meier’s Civilization” series has a learning curve. The first time players take on a campaign, it’s full of blunders. They have to dig through the new mechanic and discover they ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

When someone mentions castles in America, your mind probably jumps to Disney World or maybe some fancy mansion in California. But tucked away in Loveland, Ohio, sits a genuine medieval fortress that’s ...