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And if you want more insights into Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, especially this Holy Week, I commend the words of an Italian mystic from the 14th century ... a co-patron of Europe.

It starts with a shiver down the spine. Imagine stumbling across a pit in the heart of Europe, filled not with treasure but ...

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE.

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The creatures lived in a farming community that existed in Europe during the Bronze Age ...

They illustrate the life of the local Jewish community and its coexistence with a Christian majority in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, between the end of the 11th and the mid-14th century.

The indictment of Dr. Carpenter has chilling reverberations of 14th-century Europe after the Black Plague and 19th-century America when congress enacted the Comstock Act in 1873. The Comstock Act ...

In this one-hour special, The Story of Fascism in Europe, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with it. This special is also ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind ... 300 million people in the 20th century and has long been a scourge ...

In 14th-century Europe, beets had roots shaped more like a carrot or parsnip, as opposed to the spherical shape of modern beets. The latter probably first appeared in 16th- or 17th-century Europe ...