The Sims 4: Heritage and Royalty — the throne hunt kicks off in this expansion pack, our review

The throne calls—can you reach it amid the duels and scandals that can erupt in The Sims 4? Heritage and Royalty is the 21st expansion pack for The Sims 4, and it brings a fresh breeze of novelty to ...

Modern surgery began with saws and iron hands – how amputation transformed the body in the Renaissance

Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t. This was partly because they confronted two new ...

Renaissance DIY science: People tested, tweaked home remedy recipes

Forget “ eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog.” People in the 16th century were more akin to DIY ...

This deadly crusade was the downfall of Constantinople

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval Europe forever.