Workers restoring St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, Germany have happened upon a "huge fortune" found hidden inside the leg of ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the abdication of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the birth of ...

Saying that the heart of the Habsburgs is in Vienna may sound like a poetic expression to embellish a historical fact, but it ...

An archaeological survey along an ancient trade route in Poland uncovers a treasure trove of historical coins, shedding light ...

Political conditions in the Holy Roman Empire - known in Germany as the ‘Holy Roman Empire ... against unfair economic conditions and political repression. In Brunswick, Saxony, the Electorate of ...

On the polizei-praevention.de portal of the LKA Lower Saxony, officials warn against fraud with fake investment websites for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. This is an ongoing threat that ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over whether ...

Mining and smelting minerals like iron represented technological highs at the Roman Empire’s peak. But those activities also produced enough lead pollution to impair its citizens’ IQs, according to a ...