The discovery of a bronze sword inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II gives new insight into the imperial domination ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social ...

A stunning astronomical artefact created between 1800 and 1600 BC, tells us how human civilisation was so advanced and how connected the world was even then. Travel to Saxony-Anhalt to see this fabulo ...

The show paid homage to theatre and history, with Louis Vuitton designer Nicholas GhesquiEre blending futurism with medieval ...

Set in a medieval-inspired world, it trades space stations for war-torn castles and gothic hellscapes ... but a reason to fall back into the abyss, sword in hand, wondering what the hell that ...

Constant evolution is the beating heart of Messa, the band founded in 2014 by vocalist Sara Bianchin, guitarist Alberto Piccolo, bassist Marco Zanin, and drummer Rocco Toaldo. The four friends ...

Over the course of 10 tracks, Zauner paints a sweeping portrait of an artist as intricate as the oil paintings and gothic literature ... but it’s a double-edged sword because there’s a lot ...

The tradition continued in the Middle Ages and flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, when Spanish swords were held in the highest regard, along with German swords from Solingen and Passau. In ...

On a cold, bleak February afternoon I walked alone through the empty, silent huts, with their triple tiers of wooden pallet bunks, past the signs in Gothic German script reading: ‘One louse ...

I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long samurai sword ... in a disused mock-Gothic church; a fancier ...