Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

Instead, the hole turned out to be a 1,600-year-old wooden well, officials said. Excavations uncovered a section of wooden pipe built from three tree trunks and measuring over 3 feet across as well as ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social in its content. Müntzer’s complex, contradictory career has long been a ...

The Protestant Reformation, inaugurated when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517, sent shock waves throughout Christendom. ... The history of the ...

The doctor has pledged his troth to the Neue Galerie before, organizing the provocative, if inherently bumpy, “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937” and the splendid “Max ...

Jim McClure is a retired editor of the York Daily Record and has authored or co-authored nine books on York County history. Reach him at jimmcclure21@outlook.com .

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions ...

This is a random selection of digits extracted from scanned textbooks and used to train an AI as part of a project to see how widespread astronomy education was in the 16th century.

The 900-year-old picture stone features a carving that may depict Otto of Bamberg. WKM MV. During a recent home renovation in Klotzow, Germany, a man stumbled upon something unexpected: a three ...

In 1517, Martin Luther published his "95 Theses" in Wittenberg, Germany, beginning the Protestant Reformation. Around the same time, in a nearby German-speaking area, we find evidence of decorated ...