While empires rose and fell in the West including the Sumerians, the Romans, and even the Mongols; oceanographic navigators spread across...

The desire to relate to each other is nothing new for a species of social primates like us who depend on being contributing members of a...

In 2023/24 I came up with the idea to start an international tour company while halfway around the world on a trip to circumnavigate the...

While many weary travelers bound for Eastern Europe in search of spooky castles and witch-haunted woods flock to Romania and the Balkans,...

27 February 2024 Early this morning, I boarded the first of three flights from Germany to Japan with a flight from Cologne to Zurich....

Perhaps the quintessence of American folk music, bluegrass has gone on to inspire countless musical genres in the United states and...

In the land where horses were first domesticated over five thousand years ago, one breed of horse was so valued by ancient armies that an...

In a quiet street in one of Greece's loudest cities sits an olive stand pushing pitted olives in more colors and varieties than my eyes...

Fueled by religious zeal, the Reconquista was an era of almost constant conflict between the Islamic taifas (or city-states) in Southern...

Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality,...

Sephardic Jews- a diaspora Jewish population- was common in Medieval Spain & Portugal with the term Sephardic literally translating to...

Arianism was an early sect of Christianity consisting of followers who believed that Jesus's birth served both as the start of his life...

Women played a major role in Medieval Iberia throughout its history. Visigothic noblewomen were crucial to the spread of Christianity...