This week, 28 Years Later hits theaters, two real-world decades after Danny Boyle first rocked our world with his savage and sublime take on the zombie mythos. I remember sitting captivated in the ...

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 time ...

When many people think of the Medievals, they imagine castles and knights on white horses saving damsels in distress, or perhaps superstitious, backward-looking peasants, who’s only thought is to toil ...

The iconic Byzantine Walls of Thessaloniki, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are set to receive a stunning new lighting ...

The Dark Ages launched back in May, developers id Software promised that it would add an extra graphics option in a later ...

The Dark Ages is a term generally applied to the early Middle Ages in Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. The description suggests prevailing ignorance and barbarism, but while the ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts.

The sign-up sheet was illustrated by Carolyn in the style of Middle Age Illumination. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology.

On display are religious objects, such as mosque lamps, designed to incorporate light into worship, illuminated manuscripts ... t stop at the end of the Middle Ages: It incorporates contemporary ...

Illuminated bestiaries ... based on real lizards and crocodiles. By the end of the Middle Ages, the monstrous face of the Gothic dragon was being used for the devil himself.

Here we have an original vintage print from the Auguste Racinet L'ornement Polycrome (1870) series. One of the finest collections of decorative arts from the 19th century, refered to for inspiration ...