More than a century after its medieval centre served as the backdrop of Nosferatu, a new Oscar-nominated remake is putting this Gothic city back on the map.

Among the many causes of that ancient Greek war was an attempt by Athens at a variation of “nation building” within a region controlled by Sparta — an unfortunate side-effect of Athenian democracy… as ...

It is entirely possible that after the next general election the British will be invited to vote on whether they want their country to ‘stay in Europe ... as the start of the Protestant Reformation; ...

will drastically redraw the road and rail maps of Europe. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel may not have grabbed the popular imagination in the same way as the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France did ...

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western ...

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The mineralized bones are the earliest human fossil remains found so far in Western Europe. However, it wasn’t immediately obvious which species of prehistoric human the team had found ...

In the eleven weeks between the American election in November and Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th, Europe was abuzz with talk of how it might best “Trump-proof” itself.

The white paper – still subject to change – also asserts that Europe must urgently rearm itself, as it faces medium-term challenges beyond Russia's potential military aggression, particularly ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory shed new light on the extent and organization of the El Argar civilization, which flourished over 4,000 years ago in what is ...

Did you know there's a critical product - one without which we'd all be dead - which Europe is actually importing more of from Russia now than before the invasion of Ukraine? It might feel a bit ...