Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

With all those TV adaptations and expansive lore in mind, here's the best order for reading George R.R. Martin's "Game of ...

British archaeologists have located the remains of an 11th-century royal residence in Bosham, West Sussex—almost certainly ...

Kingdoms are a fascinating thing to study. For most of human history, people gathered around kingdoms to provide protection ...

I’ve always loved history. For all the wild stories authors and screenwriters dream up, it’s hard to top a Roman emperor ...

Consisting of 58 scenes stitched into the linen cloth in different colors of wool, the medieval ... last Anglo-Saxon king, and William, Duke of Normandy, for control over the throne of England ...

Consisting of 58 scenes stitched into the linen cloth in different colors of wool, the medieval work of art ... the last Anglo-Saxon king, and William, Duke of Normandy, for control over the throne of ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

The remains of King Harold II, who died at the famed Battle of Hastings, have never been found. But thanks to the Bayeux ...

What happens when a continent is torn apart by a hundred years of war, while another flourishes with trade, innovation, and ...