The Middle Ages were a dark period in history. This period was not just about dragons, righteous knights, and princesses.

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein paints the Creature as a sensitive and sympathetic soul, and Mike Carey's Once-Was-Willem ...

The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was one of the worst catastrophes of the late Middle Ages. Persistent rain destroyed crops, ...

John Howe, the illustrator who brought J. R. R. Tolkien’s universe to life, is now inviting the world into his mind’s eye by ...

John Howe, the illustrator who brought J. R. R. Tolkien's universe to life, is now inviting the world into his mind's eye by ...

Thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire over the weekend to welcome in the winter solstice, and one detail ...

Empire was Creative Assembly's most audacious strategy game, working at a scale the studio had never attempted before. A ...

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From the bombast of Moulin Rouge! to the teen angst of Marie Antoinette, these are the best movies that use anachronism to ...

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his frustrations with publishers and his general inability to be satisfied enough ...

An excavation in Norway uncovers a 1,400-year-old pagan temple with miniature gold foil sheets depicting human beings.

Stars from Andrew Scott to Katherine Moennig and Chris Briney have been enlisted to moan, groan and narrate steamy stories ...