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.

Lidar has fully revealed a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico. Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the ...

Swiss watches, cheese, chocolate and some of the highest mountains in the world are some of what Switzerland is known for.

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 Rhine River, one of Europe’s longest and most picturesque rivers, is famous for its stunning landscape. The steep hi ...