That’s Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, California – an authentic 13th-century Tuscan castle sitting smack in the middle of Napa Valley wine country, making you question whether you accidentally ...

The St. Augustine Ripley’s opened its doors to the public in 1950, making it the first permanent Ripley’s Believe It or Not! attraction in the world. Before that, Ripley’s collection traveled the ...

Despite its grotesque nature, goat’s tongue torture offers a fascinating glimpse into the ingenuity and cruelty of historical punishment methods. It also reminds us that even the most innocent-seeming ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of a grand castle affiliated with a long-forgotten medieval kingdom and nestled on an island in Scotland. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland ...

In this Minecraft build, we design a large medieval ruined castle with crumbling walls, broken towers, and overgrown pathways. The project captures the atmosphere of an abandoned fortress and blends ...

The surviving information and sources we have all describe the chastity belt in the same way – a metal device which locked around a woman’s genitalia to prevent any sexual activity. However, there are ...

At a 13th-century Scottish castle, researchers have excavated a medieval gravoir—a thin, pointed tool once used to style hair. The rare artifact is part of a cache of objects that reveal what daily ...

An "incredibly rare" item of medieval high fashion has been uncovered at a Highland castle, say archaeologists. The hair accessory called a gravoir dates from the 13th Century and was discovered ...

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A rare 13th century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation. The gravoir is an ancient, rudimentary hairpin, and has been added to a new collection ...

An Iron Age fortified Settlement found at Stülper Huk near Lübeck. Credit: Niklas Dopp / Kiel University For two intensive weeks, the usual silence of the Stülper Huk peninsula—a natural site on the ...