The Carpathians stretch from Slovakia through Poland, Ukraine and Romania in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some ...

Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert popularized white wedding dresses. Later, her mourning of his passing cemented the image of a grieving widow in black Sarah Holzmann Elizabeth I ...

Some of them even changed the course of history. The Minoan civilisation arose ... epidemic was the first wave of smallpox infections in Europe. Whatever the disease was, the epidemic may have ...

Why wasn't Eleanor in the Robin Hood stories? Did Eleanor really dress as an amazon during the Crusade? And Why were there so many odd deaths like tripping over a pig during this time period?

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

If you're a history lover, much of Europe's art, architecture and cultural treasures offers the chance to immerse yourself in another time period. Instead of reading about pivotal, history-making ...

Dr. Stanley-Becker is a national security reporter at The Washington Post and the author of the forthcoming book “Europe Without Borders: A History.” When I crossed a bridge spanning the Rhine ...

The history of Western European music can be divided into separate periods of time. Each period has its: own musical styles new instruments composers It's important to remember that periods of ...