The latest version of Assassin’s Creed is a gamechanger as far as the series is concerned… The Assassin’s Creed franchise has ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

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Life in the Middle Ages was anything but glamorous. Everyday survival was a challenge most of us can’t even imagine. These ...

A band of Heilbronn citizens joined the peasant army as a free flag ... and it's why everything on iStock is only available royalty-free — including all 16th Century images and footage. What kinds of ...

Many art historians see this as a standard European depiction of Mary, typical of the 16th century. But within the ... an illiterate 14-year-old peasant girl. (St. Bernadette was canonized on ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand account of a 16th-century Ethiopian monk visiting old Dongola, Sudan.