Literally just a few kilometers from Germany, and situated in the heart of France’s Alsace region, is the stunningly ...

Recently, a 12th-century French church’s restoration left history lovers like me in complete awe after 6th-century relics were unearthed beneath it. Archaeologists had a field day as a forgotten ...

The late 18th century saw the emergence throughout Europe of political movements dedicated to the pursuit of national unification on the basis of liberty. In Germany this development began relatively ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

The carving features what experts now believe to be an 1800s runic interpretation of the Christian Lord’s Prayer. The find may be traceable to an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

The Thirty Years War, a series of wars fought by various European nations for various reasons, ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to ...

By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land – the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East – had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians ...

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