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In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.
Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside another book ... says he drew a sword called Caliburn from a stone.
For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.
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If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...
For over 400 years, this fragile remnant of a celebrated medieval story lay undisturbed and unnoticed, repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans ... pulling the sword from the stone.
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It was home to as many as 7,000 people, vast temple complexes, and an imposing stone rampart visible from ... (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) ...
Even though only a select few have appeared in the show so far, the companion book for the novels explicitly outlines how ...
I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...
From playing to a room filled with nuns to losing a drum battle against a teddy bear, these moments helped make Iron Maiden ...