This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

Bulgaria's Turkish community, descendants of Ottoman settlers, suffered severe persecution under the communist regime. Yet ...

Beneath southern Poland, the Wieliczka Salt Mine has transformed from a medieval industrial powerhouse into a surreal ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

Coastal European cities have long been associated with strong local spirits that loosened up the local gentry, sealed business deals and fortified sailors for harrowing sea journeys. While there are ...

AI may reshape the world. As it does, the human soul will need non-anxious guides who meet them with respect, awe, and ...

Catholic author Emily Stimpson Chapman offers a personal glimpse into the colorful world of monastic wine, journeying through monasteries in Italy, France and Spain as windows into Europe’s spiritual ...

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

Within the next few decades, intensifying heat waves could expose a significant share of Europe's cattle to dangerous levels of heat stress. New research maps where and how millions of animals may be ...

A train climbs higher than anywhere else on the continent and it has been doing so for over 100 years. The Jungfraujoch station in Switzerland was completed in the early 20th century and still holds ...

Designers are giving museum worthy pieces a new life. By Jill Newman Rebecca Rau was skimming an auction house’s catalog last year when a bronze amulet from the ancient Central Asian region of Bactria ...