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 ...

Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann During routine archaeological surveys conducted ahead of wind-turbine construction in central Germany ...

Medieval tunnel discovered in Germany were likely used for secret cult rituals - Medieval shaft was found during excavation ...

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...

Thousands of similar tunnel systems have been discovered across Europe and despite this, their purpose has been subject to decades of theory and debate.

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists initially believed a stone slab at the northern end of the pit to be a grave.

Archaeologists in Germany unearthed yet another mysterious underground erdstall tunnel, one of the most ...

Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...