Germany’s past is written across its landscapes, from the Roman frontier to medieval fortresses and the echoes of empire. It was here that Charlemagne forged the foundations of the Holy Roman Empire ...

1500 – The first cherry pie is believed to be made in the U.K. for Queen Elizabeth I. 1600s – The English colonists brought ...

Despite advances in modern technology, these mysterious ancient artefacts continue to baffle and intrigue experts.

As a young backpacker, I fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 15th-century 'vampire' whose head was pulled from their body to prevent them ...

Malabo, the island capital of Equatorial Guinea, sits closer to Cameroon than its own mainland, reflecting a complex colonial ...

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Key among them was Aelfric, whose 11th-century translation of the Bible into Old English featured illustrations of Moses with actual horns. As the Middle Ages progressed and eventually gave way to ...

Trident 2 building types in Heng On Estate, Hong Kong. Image © WING via Wikipedia under license CC BY-SA 4.0 While these modern homes remain influential in ...

The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades when the German Lutheran author Johann Arndt published his Four Books on ...

The exhibit begins in 1909, when Aby Warburg, the German art historian for whom ... by the Italian artist Bonifacio Bembo from the mid-15th century, which are among the earliest known tarot ...