Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations

Golubac Fortress is a medieval fortified town that is located 4 kilometers downstream of the modern-day village of Golubac, Serbia. The ...

Clinging to the edge of a 900m cliff, Taktshang Goemba (Tiger’s Nest Monastery) is famous in Bhutan but like so much of the remote kingdom...

Dún Aonghasa is the most famous of several prehistoric forts on the Aran Islands, of County Galway, Ireland. It is located on Inishmore at...

View of the citadel of Jerusalem. The ancient city of Jerusalem (in Arabian Al-Quds and in Hebrew Yerushalaim, meaning city of peace) was ...

The hill of Tara (Irish, Teamhair na Rí, “Hill of the King”) is a low limestone ridge standing at 646 feet (197 m) running near the river ...

Aberdour Castle is located in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdou...

Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented mythology centred on an epic story of the struggle between Good and Evil, but it also included an el...

  When we hear the word “mythology,” we think of stories, fables, and fairy tales. Nevertheless, myth is not make-believe. Myth is based...

The White Stag by Ruth Sanderson Beldane would have found the scene unfolding before him amusing if capturing this legendary creature we...

If Stonehenge is the most famous stone circle in Britain, the Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick in the Lake District, must be the most a...

For years archaeologists try to explain the mystery of vitrified fortresses, without convincing results so far. Many stones are sintered, b...

The name of Cardinal Richelieu, prime minister of France under Louis XIII, has become synonymous with the figure, ‘the power behind the thro...

At the beginning of the eleventh century the motte was the most widespread form of castle in northern Europe (except the British Isles and S...

The two principal orders of knighthood of the Crusades were established prior to the launching of the first crusade in 1096 and shortly be...

Jotunheim is not a place for the faint of heart. It is the land of the Frost Giants, and that makes it a very dangerous place to begin with....

Dundrum, or the Magennis Castle, as it may have looked in earlier times. This 12th-century castle with its circular four-storey high k...

Motte-and-Bailey Castle Schematic View of a 14th Century Castle. Such a castle was characterized by height and verticality. (1) Ditch...

By Jeff Koyen Note: This article originally appeared in issue 18 of the Prague Pill. Dragons – not nukes – and the end of the worl...