Charlemagne (748–814) ruled a vast empire in the 8th century, uniting most of Western and Central Europe. He became a ...

Actress Sharon Stone gasped with astonishment as she discovered she was related to Charlemagne on the upcoming Jan. 28 episode of “Finding Your Roots.” The famous actress couldn’t find the ...

Aachen - the city of Charlemagne. In the late 8th century, the Holy Roman emperor made Aachen his imperial residence and had the Palatine Chapel built there.

One was the development of Carolingian minuscule, part of Charlemagne’s 8th- and 9th-century push to reform education and standardize the production of Latin texts across Europe.

Charlemagne was temperate in eating, ... Even though the 8th- and 9th-century Carolingians brewed beer with hops, it seems to have fallen severely out of fashion by the 12th century.

Last Tuesday (Jan. 28) marked exactly 1,200 years since Charlemagne died in A.D. 814. To commemorate the occasion, a group of scientists at the Cathedral of Aachen gave a summary of the research ...

Charlemagne built one of the greatest empires in world history, but less than a century after his death, it was gone. Much of what we know about the ancient world is thanks to Charlemagne. AMAZING ...

As legend has it, a sword from God given to Roland, an 8th century military leader under Charlemagne, was so powerful that Roland’s last mission was to destroy it.

They too have been mulling Charlemagne’s coronation in Rome in 800 and his subsequent movements. A Latin text has him in Aquisgrana in March 801 and in the Italian town of Spoleto in April.

The relics of Charlemagne, long on display at a treasury in Germany, are likely the real bones of the Frankish king, scientists say. Last Tuesday (Jan. 28) marked exactly 1,200 years since ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an early masterpiece of French epic poetry, from the 12th Century. It is a reimagining of Charlemagne’s wars in Spain in the 8th Century in which Roland, his most ...