France didn’t appear overnight—it formed after Roman power collapsed in Gaul and rival kingdoms fought for the ruins. The Franks, led by Clovis, crushed the last Roman commander in 486 AD, expanded ...

Tens of thousands of visitors are flocking to Lucerne, Switzerland as the Lilu Light Festival turns the city’s cobbled ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

The Renaissance scholar on tensions with the conservative reform movement, his sanguine view of academic freedom in Ron ...

Discover the meaning of 'fustian'—from a coarse medieval cloth to its use describing pompous, bombastic language that is ...

European travel expert Rick Steves knows the best places to visit. For a rich cultural and historical experience, check out ...

Two medieval men, buried face down and hundreds of years apart, have been discovered in a Neolithic monument in southern ...

As early states developed in the Iranian plateau and northern India, ideas continued to circulate between the steppe and the ...

The Menga dolmen in Antequera, Spain, is a Neolithic monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monument, built ...

The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, commemorating 1,000 years since Mahmud of Ghazni’s 1026 invasion and destruction of the Somnath temple, was more than a symbolic act of remembrance ...