This mountain city in Bulgaria is known as the Machu Picchu of Europe but is less crowded and easier to get to, while still full of ancient mysteries.

In Italy, travelers can taste the best food and wine on Earth. One idyllic Italian mountain town blends these offerings with ...

Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.

RESIDENTS of a tiny town have invited Elon Musk to buy their medieval castle and use it as his European HQ. The town of Głogówek, south-west Poland, with a population of just 5,600, wants Musk ...

Dr Sally Dormer is a specialist medieval art historian with an M.A. in Medieval Art History and Ph.D. on Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the Courtauld Institute, London University. Sally teaches ...

She argues in her monumental new book Islamesque (2024) that in early medieval Europe the world of construction and decorative crafts was “dominated by Muslims”. The claim might sound absurd ...

This region also boasts picturesque mountains, medieval architecture and globally renowned architectural wonders. Luxury Italian travel specialists Citalia, who have included Emilia-Romagna in ...

The “mega fortress” called Dmanisis Gora was built sometime between 1500BC and 500BC in the Caucasus region, on the boundary between Europe ... drone to survey and map the region’s human ...

An underrated little city in Europe known for its rich history, and sophisticated charm has the best views of the Pyrenees mountains ... and admire the mix of medieval and Renaissance architecture.

They applied the new method to over 1500 European genomes (a person’s complete set of DNA) from people who lived primarily during the first millennium AD (year 1 to 1000), encompassing the Iron Age, ...