Legends, stories, and images turned it into a symbol of the Middle Ages that would transcend ... a great serpentlike sea monster with nine heads. (Here are 6 of the world’s coolest dragon ...

The Violence Research Centre at Cambridge University (UK) just unveiled a new data-visualization project that maps murders in ... of the period. The Middle Ages wasn't as violent as we often ...

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and ... depicts a man in the belly of a monster, most likely a reference to the ...

spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human ...

“Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders” takes the visitor on a jaunt through Europe’s Middle Ages via its beasties ... Medieval power-brokers used monster motifs to demonstrate ...