French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau turned Merlin the Magician into a cruel and manipulate old man in The Knights of the Round Table (1937). (These medieval knights were the 'superheroes' of ...

Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside another book. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually ...

The mythical figure of Merlin is best known as King Arthur’s court magician, but he was so much more, including convincing King Arthur to form the knights of the round table, according to ...

Not Merlin the storied magician, although what was happening could be likened to magic. This Merlin is a smartphone app that first records birdsong, and then does very well at putting a name to ...

Legendary wizard Merlin lived in the Partick area of Glasgow and not in Camelot, a new book has claimed. Tradition has it that King Arthur's magician was either English or Welsh. But Scots advocate ...

It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court. In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later ...