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 ...

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

By the year 1550, ravioli, whole chickens and pies were some of the foods banned from being eaten in a conclave, as they were ...

Looking for something fun to do this weekend around metro Atlanta and North Georgia? Check out this list of festivals, ...

Britain's oldest book on cheese, which dates from the 1580s, has been transcribed. It has plenty of wisdom to share.

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

The 13-page manuscript, valued at nearly $20,000, had been housed in the National Archive of Paraguay since at least 1870 until it was stolen over a decade ago. It next surfaced at an auction house in ...

Before they initiated the bloodbath of the Cultural Revolution, Mao and his Red Guards identified as disciples of Sun Wukong, the rebellious monkey king of the 16th-century novel Journey to the West.

Terrestrial water storage, which includes water in underground aquifers, lakes, rivers and the tiny pore spaces within soil, declined by trillions of metric tons in the early 21st century ...

Many also believe the oracle has predicted the return on the 17th century plague in the words: 'A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.' In an even more ...