Our association is a group of friends who love uncovering history,” on of the accidental archaeologists said. “We do it as a hobby.” ...

Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have found lumps of gold that appear to have resulted from part of the treasure being melted down, but still ...

Baroque castles, incredible porcelain artistry, and magnificent symphonies star in this stunning tour through eastern Germany ...

Archaeologists working in Lower Saxony, have unearthed fossilized human footprints dating back about 300,000 years. The discovery, described in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represents the ...

Excavation of the medieval Jewish cemetery in Erfurt, Germany. By excavating ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once-thriving medieval Ashkenazi ...

German authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested four suspects in the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a museum in Bavaria last year. Thieves broke into the Celtic and Roman ...

A centuries-old Roman marble bust believed to depict an enemy of Julius Caesar, which may have been looted by an American soldier stationed in Germany after World War II, went on display at the San ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Extracting 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 show that the ...