To steal music and hide it from people because these divine sounds are too good to be heard - what sophisticated mind could conceive such a crime? However, i...

The cult of Black Madonnas, images and statues of the Virgin Mary made in black, has been widespread throughout Europe since the Middle Ages. More than one g...

In 1598, a caravan of merchants was robbed in Muscovy. The main loss is a black mirror sent as a gift to Boris Godunov by the English sorcerer John Dee, for ...

The high priest of the temple of the god Ra, Nectaneb, was seriously concerned: the increasing incidence of plundering the tombs of pharaohs and priests led ...

At the end of the first millennium, Catholic Europe froze in anticipation of the predicted Apocalypse. Pope Sylvester II, who was a very educated man, showed...

According to legend, medieval heretics, the Cathars, owned a priceless treasure - their own Grail, for the possession of which the entire Roman Catholic Chur...