Everyone pictures the medieval tournament the same way. Colorful banners, cheering crowds, two knights charging each other on horseback while a crowd gasps. It looks like sport. It looks like entertainment. It was both of those things, sure. But strip away the pageantry and what you’re actually looking at is something closer to a live… Read More: Medieval Tournaments: War Rehearsal With Better PR »
A friend of mine spent a summer backpacking through parts of rural Italy and kept sending me photos of what looked like ordinary country paths. Except they weren’t ordinary. Several of them followed the exact route of roads laid down by Roman surveyors before the birth of Christ, and locals still use them to get… Read More: What Rome’s Roads Reveal About Roman Empire Engineering »
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