Germany is a country where the past isn’t just preserved, it’s woven into everyday life in ways that feel both effortless and ...

There are tens of thousands of castles in Germany. Here are ten of our favorites that you can visit—or maybe even book as ...

Europe is filled with castles that once belonged to royalty, knights, and nobles, and now, some of them open their grand doors to travelers looking for a stay that feels straight out of a storybook.

Living in a castle may be the Disney dream, but castle life was less like Sleeping Beauty and more like an extreme reality ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany's Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

Texts versus images: female spirituality from an art historian's perspective -- Art, enclosure, and the pastoral care of nuns -- The visual and the visionary: the image in late medieval monastic ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

Experts flash-froze the child’s grave to preserve and lift it out of the ground in one piece, according to the release. Photo by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. After discovering ...