European medieval architecture tended towards the ornamented. For centuries an enormous amount of the productivity…
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Navigating life in medieval Europe could be tricky. On the one hand, you had an…
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History
Sir Cecil Chubb and the Greatest Impulse Purchase in History
by Joseph Greenby Joseph GreenSir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb was a self-made man. The son of a leatherworker in…
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The term paganism has always been something of an insult. First recorded in the fourth…
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Some things connect people across the vastness of history. For those in the northern hemisphere,…
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Since biblical times, tales of witches and the spells they cast have enchanted people. There…
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Archaeology
The Tophet: Was Ancient Carthage Driven to Child Sacrifice?
by Kurt Readmanby Kurt ReadmanAncient Carthage was a city in modern Tunisia on the north coast of Africa that…
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