Sailing solo through Germany’s storybook towns felt like stepping into a living fairytale—no rental car, no repacking—just castles, cathedrals and cobbled streets unfolding beyond my cabin window. The ...

Germany wears its history openly. In its medieval towns, time doesn’t just linger, it breathes. Cobbled lanes twist past gabled houses, stone towers rise above red rooftops, and the scent of fresh ...

Fly above the perfectly preserved medieval city of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, Germany, with this breathtaking drone ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany's Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We ...

Eltz Castle, aka Burg Eltz, is one of Germany's most famous castles, known for its beauty and medieval architecture. Check ...

Texts versus images: female spirituality from an art historian's perspective -- Art, enclosure, and the pastoral care of nuns -- The visual and the visionary: the image in late medieval monastic ...

Curator Earle Havens shares highlights from Johns Hopkins' collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—and his team's ...