The feathers on his head were worn by the King of England, on the advice of the Pope himself. They were paraded by the empress of Byzantium and even Justinian the Great himself. One of the most famous Polish monarchs also had his own headdress. And it was by no means a worthless prop! The starti
The Teutonic Order was one of the three greatest Christian orders of knights. It was created during the crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries. From the lands conquered as a result of Christianization he created his own state. The origins of the order were modest. Here, during the siege of Akka
The drawing depicts Charlemagne with one of his most famous wives, Ermengarda. The monarch was an unrepentant womanizer Charlemagne , king of the Franks and a highly skilled politician, had a rather turbulent private life and he was, as attested by the sources, an unrepentant womanizer . T
We are surrounded by death, but normal life is also going on here, say the people of Darajja about the war in Syria. Before 2011, this city of 90,000 was inhabited by a vibrant community. Today there is only a sea of rubble, ruins and blood ... Darajja is a city often referred to as the suburb