Across Africa, Europe, and Asia, the Middle Ages were a hotbed for political events, military action, pioneering inventions, influential literature, and religious turmoil. Let’s travel back in ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word puzzles.

An introduction to The Satoshi Papers, exploring how Bitcoin challenges traditional monetary systems, reshapes state power, ...

Ian Stewart’s great achievement in his vivid new book The Celts is to examine these rifts and complexities with imagination ...

In 370 BCE, Plato writing Socrates’ words in Phaedrus took the helm of another moral panic. He wrote, “This invention will ...

after the Roman conquest of the Greeks in 146 B.C. Sweet pastries were absolutely popping off in the Middle Ages, especially ...

What type of ancient medieval torture device is this?” Ross Blankenship asked. I explained it was Grandma Potempa’s pressure ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, bears striking resemblance to the one designed by an Arab Muslim ...