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Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...

A new exhibition at the Louvre takes visitors on a visual journey, exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, together with an international team, carried out an ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those ...

Maddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. Now, we have an interview ...

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the ...

Since it was so widely consumed, beer has made the perfect target for taxation for governments throughout the centuries. But ...

Isidore of Seville preserved knowledge in the ‘Dark Ages’, earning him the title of patron saint of the internet. His work ...