Luke Arnold, actor: ‘Captain Jack Sparrow and Long John Silver would have got along fine’
The star of the ‘Black Sails’ pirate series is also the author of the popular ‘Sunder City’ fantasy novels
The long and fierce struggle of the Apaches
Historian Paul Andrew Hutton tells the story of 50 years of war, savagery and adventure on the final frontier of the American West
Katherine Harvey: ‘The way modern popular culture imagines medieval sexuality is quite inaccurate’
In ‘The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages’, the British scholar debunks myths and offers surprising facts about medieval carnal relations
Omar Sy, star of ‘Father and Soldier:’ ‘Wearing the uniform in which so many Senegalese riflemen died in WWI made a big impression on me’
The popular star of ‘The Intouchables’ and double award winner at the recent BCN Film Fest in Barcelona does not consider himself a sex symbol at all
Waldorf method educator: ‘The fact that the Nazis didn’t like our schools is good publicity’
Klaus Esser, who teaches in a Barcelona center, believes that screens can detract more than they can contribute to children’s abilities
‘Caesar’s Prisoner’: The thrilling story of the Gallic rebel Vercingetorix, his Roman guard and the notorious dungeons of Mamertine
Novelist Massimiliano Colombo takes EL PAÍS on a tour of the Tullianum, the infamous underground prison where the warrior chief of Gaul languished for years awaiting execution, and now, the main setting of a magnificent new historical novel
Quentin Tarantino: ‘I own a gun and I’ve kept the swords from ‘Kill Bill’ '
The director of ‘Pulp Fiction’ spoke with EL PAÍS about the gun control debate in the United States and his love of Spanish cinema, among other subjects. He also acknowledged that he has a natural talent to create tension on-screen
The vampire hunter of our time is a fighting monk with silver tattoos who smokes powdered blood
Australian Jay Kristoff is the writer behind a monumental novel about the undead that at the same time pays tribute to and subverts the classics of the genre
The wonders of ancient Rome: A guided tour
In a new book by British historian Jerry Toner, a fictionalized Roman aristocrat takes readers on a ‘grand tour’ of the empire, exploring sites and attractions that early tourists once visited themselves, many now lost to time.
Severed hands for the pharaoh: Archaeologists find first physical evidence of enemy mutilation in Ancient Egypt
Amputated limbs, which according to sources were used to count dead warriors, have been excavated from three pits in a 15th dynasty palace at Avaris
Gods, tombs and Nazis: the Third Reich’s bad relationship with Egyptology
Anti-Semitism and the Hitler regime’s obsession with the past of the Aryan peoples put the brakes on the study of the ancient Pharaonic civilization in Germany, despite what is shown in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
From the incest of the Ptolemies to the infidelities of the Kennedys: British author Simon Sebag Montefiore’s lurid family history of humanity
Sex, executions, assassinations and gossip populate the 1,500-plus pages of the historian’s ambitious book
The World War II battle where German and US soldiers joined forces against the Waffen-SS
With Hitler dead and the Nazi surrender two days away, a ragtag unit of Wehrmacht and GIs banded together to defend illustrious French prisoners at the Battle for Castle Itter
The secrets of Colditz Castle: The Nazi prisoner-of-war camp where the escape artists of World War II were locked away
Journalist and author Ben Macintyre unveils the history of the famous fortress and points out that, among the prisoners of war, there was rampant classism, antisemitism, madness, sex, racism and betrayal
The plane crash that killed a Nazi officer on a mysterious mission in Spain
New clues and a recent novel have revived interest in Colonel Alexander von Scheele, who died in 1939 when his aircraft smashed into a mountainside
The Mummified Remains Return? Why mummies are resisting a name change
An initiative by British museums to use alternative terms for embalmed bodies is considered unnecessary by most Egyptologists consulted by this newspaper
British Museum curator of Egyptian exhibits prefers Brendan Fraser’s mummy movie to Tom Cruise reboot
Marie Vandenbeusch’s exhibition at Barcelona’s CaixaForum delves into the lives of six ancient people
Where the tigers roar: A journey through history, myth and geography
In his book ‘The trails of a tiger’ expeditionist José Luis Rivera chronicles his experiences with the felines and discusses what can be done to protect them
No oral sex in the Middle Ages
A gripping book by British historian Katherine Harvey documents what went on between the sheets in the Middle Ages
The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany
Historian Florian Huber’s book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed
Has the mystery behind the fresco in the Tomb of the Diver been solved?
A German archaeologist has written a beautiful and illuminating book about the ancient site, located in Paestum, Italy, known for the mysterious frescoes adorning its walls
The horror of discovering that your grandfather was an SS officer who personally murdered Jews during the Holocaust
In his novel ‘The Bastard Factory,’ Chris Kraus wrestles with the memory of his relative, who belonged to a roving Nazi killing squad
Excavating the archives of the man who uncovered Tutankhamun’s tomb
Marking the centenary of the greatest archaeological find in history, other “wonderful things” in the shape of documents, drawings and photographs are on display in Oxford’s Bodleian Library
Oliver Stone: ‘The Putin I knew was rational, calm, always acting in the best interest of the Russian people’
The director of ‘JFK’ defended the Russian leader at the presentation of a new documentary on the Kennedy assassination at the BCN Film Fest in Barcelona
Shackleton’s legendary ‘Endurance’: One of polar exploration’s most famous vessels located in Antarctica
The ship went down in the Weddell Sea in 1915 after being trapped in pack ice for nine months, leading to a celebrated escape to safety over land and sea
The British Museum’s Stonehenge exhibition: An accessible, comprehensive guide (albeit with no druids…)
Treasures such as the Nebra sky disc and Seahenge are there to be discovered at the show, which cleverly links the prehistoric site to our present times
The real story of Spain’s El Cid: medieval hero or shrewd mercenary?
Many of the episodes that people know from books and movies never really happened, says scholar David Porrinas. But Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s life and exploits were still extraordinary