By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

By the time he was six, Charles was already Lord of the Netherlands, a collection of semi-autonomous states that included Flanders, Brabant and Holland. When he was 16, he became co-monarch of Spain ...

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

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Since January 2025, the tomb of Emperor Otto the Great in Magdeburg Cathedral has been the subject of extensive investigations. After the stone sarcophagus was opened in early March 2025, the work ...

The Rev. Skip Heitzig, senior pastor of Calvary Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivered a passionate call for ...

The Franks, a Germanic tribe that rose to prominence during the fall of the Roman Empire, played a central role in the formation of modern Europe. Their legacy stretches from the collapse of the ...

The Holy See is the central government of the Church, led by the Pope and the Roman Curia. The Vatican City State is a small but sovereign territorial entity that guarantees the Pope unlimited ...

Members of the mediatized nobility still, however, retain the hereditary right to a seat in the upper chamber of the German, Austrian, and Hungarian States in which their landed property is ...

Was the Holy Roman Empire really a state? It did not, of course, have a regular army or a genuine navy. Its diplomatic services were scattered and its affairs often conducted by rival chancelleries.

In the year 112, a Roman governor in modern-day Turkey had his first encounter with members of a strange religious cult called “Christiani.” The governor had heard reports the cult followed an ...