Explore Germany through 10 of its most beautiful destinations, from medieval towns and fairy tale castles to major cities, ...

Rothenburg is still Germany's best-preserved walled town. In the Middle Ages, Rothenburg was Germany's second-largest city with a population of 6,000. Rolf Richardson / Alamy Twenty-five years ago, I ...

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 ...

Michael Curschmann, a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, emeritus, at Princeton University, died Oct. 7 at his home in Princeton. He was 81. Curschmann's wide-ranging scholarship on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty ...

During the European Middle Ages, literacy and written texts were largely the province of religious institutions. Richly illustrated manuscripts were created in monasteries for use by members of ...

A routine excavation in western Germany has led to the rediscovery of Echene, a medieval town that vanished from the ...