Planet Earth harbors a number of astonishing facts that remain unknown to many despite tremendous scientific progress, as ...

The world of Germanic nations is a diverse and rich cultural ethnosphere whose languages and cultures came to dominate Western Europe and much of the world. Their history is rich and spans centuries, ...

The Via di Linari winds through the Apennines, passing abbeys, castles, and mountain towns. Here’s how to hike the Italian ...

Throughout the rich tapestry of human history, there have been historical events that have significantly influenced the ...

Artifacts (left to right) such as a chalcedony cameo depicting the god Dionysus, and a glass gem showing a wounded child of the mortal Niobe, a glass bead with an image of a sacred bull, probably made ...

Christmas lights and decorations are going up all over town. I love all the green, the red, the shiny and the bright. Our German town founders did too.

A cache of bones and artifacts buried at a site near to where the Waal and Meuse rivers meet testify to a genocidal slaughter of tragic proportions. As recorded by Julius Caesar himself, a bloody ...

Cinema features some of the grandest battles ever depicted, from the prison riot in The Raid 2 to the Battle of Helm's Deep ...

Adelasius Ebalchus has a decidedly Latin name for a man who lived in Switzerland around 700 A.D., centuries after the western Roman Empire fell apart. That choice of name was deliberate, explains ...

Bad Cannstatt is not only the most populous district of Stuttgart, but also the oldest - settlement here can be traced back to the Stone Age. In the medieval Klösterle-Scheuer, the Bad Cannstatt City ...