# Tarot History

> How a 15th-century Italian card game became today's tarot. Short articles on tarot's origins and imagery, and the Tarot History Forum, open since 2008. Run by Robert Mealing (known as "Le Pendu"), former co-moderator of the Historical Tarot forum on Aeclectic Tarot.

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- [Tarot History](https://www.tarothistory.com/)
- [Tarot History Forum](https://forum.tarothistory.com/): Discussion and research on the history of tarot, open since 2008.
- [Robert Mealing](https://robertmealing.com)


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- [Tarot History Homepage](https://www.tarothistory.com/): Some starting points... Explore how the card game of Tarot invented in the early 15th century has turned into one...


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- [The Iconography and Order of Tarot Cards](https://www.tarothistory.com/the-iconography-and-order-of-tarot-cards/): Why these cards? Why this order? The cards are weird, aren’t they? Could you quickly memorise their order well enough...
- [Tarot is a Game of Triumphs](https://www.tarothistory.com/tarot-is-a-game-of-triumphs/): Petrarch and I Trionfi Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch (1304–1374), was one of the great poets and scholars...
- [Tarot is a Trick-Taking Game](https://www.tarothistory.com/tarot-is-a-trick-taking-game/): Tarot was made to be played Before tarot was used for divination, art or self-reflection, it was a game, and...
- [The Origin of Tarot Cards](https://www.tarothistory.com/origin-of-tarot-cards/): Tarot cards were invented to play a card game Tarot began as a card game in fifteenth-century Italy, and it...

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