When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle ...

From an Egyptian queen Cleopatra, 80’s dance kids, cartoon characters and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – the effort people made in extreme temperatures was out-standing. The colourful and rhythmic ...

The medieval hero known as Wade was thought to have encountered elves in his adventures. But they might have wolves instead.

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

The Teutonic Knights were a German religious order of crusaders who operated in eastern Europe in the 1000s. Similar to the ...

The first mention of a pirate by name may be in a Greek book from 2,500 years ago. But sea-raiding has been around since the ...