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 ...

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 ...

In the German countryside, archaeologists are working to uncover what farm life looked like in the medieval era. The excavation began in January 2023 outside the town of Werne, where traces of a ...

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 ...

Extracting ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once-thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings show that the ...

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 ...

BERLIN >> A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been added to ...

Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but a few years back I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. The capital of the German region of Thuringia, ...

Archaeologists discover a unique 15th-century curse tablet in Rostock, Germany, hidden in an old latrine, invoking demonic ...

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 ...