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.

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

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 ...

Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event. Early ...

Christmas unfolds as a sensory feast of ancient food traditions, making the season unimaginable without its warm, evocative ...

The Middle Ages weren’t as dreary and desperate as you’d think, and peasants often had weeks of idle time during the holidays ...

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 ...