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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

“This is a once-in-a-curator’s career acquisition,” Kirchhoff said of a rare 16th-century automaton clock ... who elected each ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. There are two engraved ...

Columella’s “own community” was the region of what is today Cádiz in Spain.

The Steinern Brücke is a stone bridge over the Danube, which is one of the oldest and most significant in Germany. It was built in the 12th century and served as an important trade route connecting ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic is ruthlessly exploited by the tourism industry. It is a theme eloquently ...

Much later, following the breakup of the Roman Empire, Petra became ... In the 12th century, the sultan Saladin wrested most of the Holy Land from the Crusaders. Jebel Haroun, and the cult of ...

Located in modern-day Turkey, the 13th-century Divrigi Hospital was built ... of Christianity considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire, and had been forced to flee to Persia.

Holy water is also removed from the fonts ... They were writing for an audience beyond Palestine, and in the Roman Empire of the first century, there was no general consensus about the names ...

The Medici family was a powerful and influential dynasty that dominated the political, economic, and cultural life of Florence and much of Italy from the 15th to the 18th century. Known for their ...

The Albanian case is very similar to the problems that the Croat 19 th century nationalists faced with the acute lack of ...