Germany’s Romantic Road is more than just a scenic route, it’s a time machine disguised as a highway. Stretching through ...

In the German countryside, archaeologists are working to uncover what farm life looked like in the medieval era. The excavation began in January 2023 outside the town of Werne, where traces of a ...

Germany is a country where the past isn’t just preserved, it’s woven into everyday life in ways that feel both effortless and fascinating. Medieval walls rise beside gleaming glass towers, ...

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 ...

Excavating ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings, shared today in ...

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 ...

BERLINBERLIN — A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been ...

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...

Archaeologists in Germany uncovered the remains of a medieval man with a “sophisticated” centuries-old iron prosthetic hand. The complete skeleton of a middle-aged man at the time of his death was ...

The 15th-century German man would sing the ‘all’s well’ tune at the top of the hour through the night. The walled town of Rothenburg, midway between Frankfurt and Munich, offers the best look possible ...

Snow can truly change the landscape of any place. Draped in white, houses, fields, and mountains can look truly magical. That ...