One of the most well-known aspects of mangaka Eiichiro Oda’s process in crafting his One Piece story is pulling from real-world historical events, concepts, and more.

The ruins of the oldest church ever discovered in Finland are providing new insights about how Christianity spread here, and ...

The story of Konventa Sēta quarter begins in the Middle Ages, during a time of knights and crusades. It initially served as the residence of the Livonian Order, a powerful military force that played a ...

The journey of pasteurization is one of science's most significant public health triumphs, and few know that it was ...

The name Vikings refers to the inhabitants of Scandinavia who dedicated themselves to plundering other parts of Europe in the ...

We tried that in the Middle Ages, that’s what the Crusades were about.” Divine missions and sensible foreign policy just don’t go together. And the crusaders of the last millennium and this ...

A fragile, irreplaceable object of significance to the shared cultural history of all humanity was being kept in a hot, humid ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...

With the X-Men coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans are wondering just how things are going shake out. Mutants have ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...