In July of 2007, during a speech at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy infamously said: “The tragedy of Africa is that the African ...

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For anyone who's ever wished for Age of Empires to be a more tranquil and peaceful experience, City Tales Medieval Era is here to scratch that itch. It's a city builder set during the Middle Ages that ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of ...

While Genghis Khan and Mongol invasion is often blamed for the fall of Central Asia's medieval river civilizations, new research shows it may have been down to climate change. Researchers conducted ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

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TL;DR: AI and radar technology are revolutionizing archaeology, uncovering 5,000-year-old settlements in Dubai and medieval sites in Mongolia without excavation, reshaping how we discover lost ...

This article originally appeared on AlterNet. When we think about medieval Europe, we tend to think about kings ruling with iron fists, about Christian crusaders purifying Jerusalem with the blood of ...