The History of Tarot
Tarot began as a card game in 15th-century Italy and only became a tool for divination centuries later. Here's the real story — sourced, not mythologised.
Origins of Tarot
From tarocchi card games in 1440s Italy to the deck we know.
Read →The Marseille Tradition
The woodcut standard that shaped tarot for centuries — and our house style.
Read →Rider-Waite-Smith (1909)
Pamela Colman Smith, A.E. Waite, and the most influential deck ever made.
Read →Myths, Debunked
No, tarot is not ancient Egyptian — separating history from legend.
Read →Our history pages cite primary sources — including Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) and the public-domain Rider-Waite-Smith deck (1909).