The yumi bow, alongside the katana, occupies a quasi-religious place in Japanese culture; it was the primary weapon of samurai long before the sword.
Asatru, a neopagan religion dedicated to the Old Norse gods, was established as an official religion in Iceland in 1972; other countries soon followed.
Cerdic of Wessex was the founder of Wessex, which would eventually lead to the foundation of England. But was he really an Anglo-Saxon, or was he a Briton?
Witness how Baldwin IV turned a death sentence into a legacy. Discover the King who defeated Saladin while battling leprosy.
Over the course of thousands of years, naval warfare underwent a dramatic transformation from bow and arrows to thunderous cannon.
Growing in power and challenging the authority of the Eastern Roman Empire, Theodoric and the Ostrogoths took control of the Italian Peninsula.
High crosses were a unique form of monumental art and religious expression that flourished in Ireland from the 8th to the 11th centuries CE.
In 1527, the city of Rome was sacked by mutinous forces of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Pope was forced to flee for his life, protected by his elite Swiss Guards.
