The post asked, "What's been the biggest fuck-up in the history of humans?" and naturally, I had to share. Here are some of ...

Within two years, the Mongols utterly annihilated the empire: they sacked and destroyed its cities, chased the shah into ...

The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the ...

Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything you need to know about the history.

Could the Mongols have taken Europe? The Mongols were certainly world-class conquerors. In the thirteenth century, they ruled the largest contiguous land empire in history. It is commonplace to ...

After the devastation of the Great Plague came a wave of prosperity and innovation, not to mention the birth of the middle ...

The flame-red Eierland lighthouse at the northern tip of Texel is the Dutch island’s most prominent landmark. On a dark night its light can be seen from Leeuwarden, 60 kilometres to the east, while by ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

"They were showing — they were doing a what they would do at the time of the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the 14 — in the 800s. And they — and then show what a normal day was ...

Crimea had been contested for centuries by the Greeks, Mongols and Ottomans before Russia illegally annexed it from Ukraine in 2014. Sitting at a geographic crossroads between Europe, Asia and the ...