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Across America, in front of crowds of thousands, men and women are dressing up as knights from the Middle Ages and fighting ...

More than 20 women have publicly accused the 76-year-old of sexual misconduct in the past, but this is the first time a case ...

For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared ... these highly disciplined men and women, with their light armor and super sharp blades, made European knights look ...

DNA analysis of the remains in a late iron age grave in southern Finland may have belonged to a high-status non-binary person.

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I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, captivated as he waswith the creatures of myth. That desir ...

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...