Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

Stephen Greenblatt’s “Dark Renaissance,” a new biography of English poet and writer Christopher Marlowe, delves deep to discover origins, and brutalities of the start of the English enlightenment.

Western civilization arose in the eighth century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

From the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Rhine and Danube to the Sahara, there were a million square miles of ...

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

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

It's time to learn what happened to the contents of chamber pots in the Dark Ages and whether Europeans really considered ...

Stronghold’s next chapter - welcome to The Dark Ages. FireFly Studios is keeping quiet for now, but we should hear more soon Source: Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition; Developer: FireFly Studios ...

Monster Mania is a monthly column celebrating the unique and varied monster designs in horror gaming. The Doom franchise has always been synonymous with demons and black metal. The series has made its ...

An armoured knight on a lumbering steed; toiling serfs, tied to the lands of their lord, cloistered monks and nuns, lost in prayer. And don’t forget the scenery: high-walled castles, great gothic ...

Turns out, the Dark Ages weren’t so dim when it came to wellness. Researchers have unearthed a trove of medical remedies dating back over a thousand years, revealing that early medieval Europeans were ...

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