A bronze statue of St. Peter, possibly cast as long ago as the 5th century CE, has seen a lot of love: It's tradition for basilica visitors to kiss or rub his foot when they pass by.

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

Near the site of a ruined palace begun by Charlemagne back in the 8th century, tens of thousands of visitors will turn out to hear a vast variety of artists playing sounds from electronic to pop ...

As emperor, Charlemagne undertook a program of cultural reconstruction known as the “renovatio”, which involved the collecting and copying of books that had survived barbarian destruction and ...

But what, if any, connection exists between an 8th-century emperor and a terrifying nocturnal entity in Upton remains a mystery. All of Tom Slemen’s books and audiobooks are available from Amazon.

Kendrapada: The ancient Buddhist site of Ratnagiri in Jajpur district has been officially dated to the 8th century CE, following a breakthrough excavation by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

Charlemagne, who towered at a hefty 6ft 4in, reigned as King of the Franks in what is now France from AD 768 until his death in 814. His successful military campaigns in the eighth century saw him ...

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 (748–814) ruled a vast empire in the 8th century, uniting most of Western and Central Europe. He became a recognized emperor from the West after Rome’s fall, making him the first ...

Charlemagne (748 – 814) ruled over a huge empire in the 8th century, uniting most of Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Roman ...