Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

Europe’s leaders are mostly aware of these challenges, and wish to fix them. The question is whether they will manage.

The Middle Ages were shaped by a series of pivotal events that influenced politics, religion, and society. From conflicts and ...

A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

A Bank of America Institute analysis of 2,000 years of GDP data reframes American exceptionalism — and points toward what ...

The best-supported explanation is that it grew out of two older ideas that were later fused together: Friday as an unlucky ...

Analysis: There are numerous examples in texts of Irish people showing a sense of belonging to a community defined in relation to Europe The use of this term emphasises, and exaggerates, a contrast ...

“Some dates are easy to remember.” Those words came from Joe Nesvacil, 60 years ago, when he recounted the story of how he came all the way from Kansas, in 1926, to Cadott, as a stowaway on a f ...

From the stone circles of the Neolithic through the glories of Rome and the Renaissance to the ravages of the world wars, Europe boasts a history of extraordinary richness. Alexander the Great, ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history. Hunter-gatherer genes were prevalent in ...