Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

The illuminated manuscripts of the Court School of Charlemagne are amongst the preeminent highlights ... on the ideal of the political and cultural unity of the Carolingian empire. As imperial gifts, ...

The Frankish king, Charlemagne the Great ... progenitor of a Holy Roman Empire whose descendants would rule right up until the time of Napoleon, and Emperor of the West? It begins in 741 AD ...