Germany has around 20,000 castles spread across the country. The total includes intact structures, partial ruins, foundations ...
A hobbyist using a metal detector in Brandenburg discovered a cross featuring Jesus inside a wheel that dates back roughly 1,000 years.
It’s not every day that you find a medieval wheel cross, and it’s even rarer when the find matches another centuries-old ...
Rothenburg is still Germany's best-preserved walled town. In the Middle Ages, Rothenburg was Germany's second-largest city with a population of 6,000. Rolf Richardson / Alamy Twenty-five years ago, I ...
It’s also a place you can explore fully without spending much and make history accessible even on a tight budget. Towers, Bridges, and Medieval Streets Image via Wikimedia Commons/Hytrion The Old ...
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...
Update: Mennonite Life has an Intro to German Script class, 10-11:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The class will teach the basics of reading German script and include the chance to interpret 18th- and ...