Thousands of years ago, in the greatest city of the world, Babylon, crowded markets were noisy, the Tower of Babel stretched to the sky, the Hanging Gardens ...

A talented 17th-century craftsman from the German city of Nuremberg made an amazing mechanical toy for a wealthy Eastern merchant - a golden carousel with a ...

Leonid Markov, widely known in narrow circles under the aristocratic nickname Marquis, takes on a new adventure - returning a stolen will to the customer. Ho...

Many legends and myths are the embodiment of ancient fear of darkness, the unknown, and the elemental forces of nature, and in our time few people believe in...

For hundreds of centuries, the confrontation between two secret cults lasted - the Great Mother and her cruel son, the nameless god. Civilizations and people...

For hundreds of years now, rumors about treasures buried by Captain Flint on one of the islands off the coast of Africa have not subsided. Every now and then...

The sword named Gray Kite, forged by the legendary Scandinavian master, allowed its owner to win any fight. Thanks to this magical gift, the ordinary Viking ...

The Portuguese king Pedro, after the death of his favorite Ines de Castro, was so inconsolable that he could not come to terms with the death of his beloved,...

In different countries and in different eras, as if time and space had no power over him, a mysterious gray-haired old man appeared, who invited everyone to ...

Empress Catherine the Second was known for her love of jewelry and was considered one of the largest collectors of the era. A special place in her collection...

Friday October 13, 1307 went down in history as Black Friday. On that day, by order of King Philip IV the Fair, the leaders of the Templar Order were arreste...

Ksenia immediately did not like her potential employer Isolda Mikhailovna: she, without even checking the nanny’s recommendations, without talking to her, im...