Once ravaged by repeated fires, Hakodate has transformed itself into a model for fire prevention by redesigning everything ...
Behind every exotic badge and hand-stitched interior, there's sometimes an engine that started life moving families to the ...
More and more Europeans and also Germans are holidaying here, going for walks or doing sport at a long and sunny Baltic Sea ...
When a savvy book dealer bought an atlas that Queen Mary I of England once owned, they weren't expecting to find the first ...
A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...
The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study ...
When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...
The Filiki Eteria Museum in Odessa, Ukraine is a beacon of Hellenism, as it is where the Greek War of Independence was planned.
Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...
The ”peaceful” Pilgrims massacred the Pequots and destroyed their fort near Stonington, Connecticut, in 1637. A 19th-century wood engraving (above) depicts the slaughter. The Granger Collection, NYC ...