Real Crusades History on MSN

They blame the inquisition for witch hunts, but the truth is way different

People love the idea that the Inquisition spent the Middle Ages burning witches nonstop, but historically it was rarely ...
Real Crusades History on MSN

A surprising fact about medieval witches

Most people picture medieval witches as part of the “Dark Ages”… but the real truth is way more surprising. In this video, we ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Discovered the ‘Holy Grail’ of Shipwrecks a Decade Ago. Now, They’re Finally Beginning to Unravel the Secrets of the ‘San José’

A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...
Aeon

A lesson in coexistence

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...