Some 500 years ago, Jakob Fugger was the richest man alive. The German financed emperors and popes, and reshaped global trade ...

COMMENTARY: The 16th-century ecumenical council shows us how the Church can come together and bring about authentic reform.

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

With the New Year on the horizon, it is time to put pen to paper and think about what we really want in 2026. Surveys dress it up as “relationships” and “financial security,” but we all know what that ...

King Charles V Prince William! 'Dying' Monarch 'Not Speaking' to Son Over Shocking Revelations About His Childhood, Parents' Divorce and Plans to Change the Monarchy William is still upset Charles met ...

Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects, which we pick up between 1400 and 1500. As always, we're looking at 'things', that tell us about how societies organised themselves, ...

These landmarks all deliver genuine awe in real life — no matter how many times you’ve seen them on social media ...

A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d. Archaeologists unearthed foundations (in box, above right) of a late second- or early ...

On May 23, 1618, a group of Protestant nobles in Prague did something that would have been considered comical had it not kicked off one of the most devastating conflicts in European history. They ...

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

From party invitations to requests for warm socks, letters discovered at Vindolanda, England gave first-hand accounts of everyday life inside a Roman fort. Roman outpostAn aerial view shows the ...