From the storied histories of landmarks like the Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel to the jaw-dropping beauty of Venice and the glittering Mediterranean Sea, it's no wonder Italy is regarded as one of ...

Books & the Arts / In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in ...

This is the eighth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...

Book-lovin’ columnist David Allen offers highlights from what he read in 2024, from “Middlemarch” to histories of Riverside ...

the development of Rome as the center of an empire, and the role of city-making in history. Our path will follow, roughly, a kind of monumental way envisioned by Augustus when remaking the old Field ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved the country’s lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf ...

This beautifully illustrated book is the perfect companion to Smithsonian Battles Map by Map. This edition uses multicolor maps to cover world history from the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and ...

The Saudi suspect, 50-year-old psychiatrist and anti-Islam activist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, had made online death threats against German citizens and had a history of quarrelling with state authorities.

He is now wading into Germany's election campaign, calling on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign and throwing his support behind the populist anti-immigration AfD. "Scholz should resign ...

The Home Office has been accused of “indoctrinating” civil servants with a “distorted” history course about the British Empire. The lessons, recommended for all staff in the department ...

The man accused of killing five people and injuring more than 200 others by ramming a car into a crowded German Christmas market had a history of making anti-Islam statements, which had grown ...