Europeans as a people are younger than we thought, a new study suggests. DNA recovered from ancient skeletons reveals that the genetic makeup of modern Europe was established around 4,500 B.C. in the ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

The Department of International History is delighted to host a group of world-leading historians of Europe to explore modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the ...

Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout Europe. Here, to ...

InvestigationBuilding a common home has haunted Europe for centuries. Between rapprochements and conflicts, history has offered its citizens a set of widely shared values and ideas, but is it based on ...

Saim Saeed is a Brussels-based journalist and former POLITICO editor. European officials are keen to assert that the sum of their institutions is more than their parts. The EU, in their view, isn’t ...

History is written, read, told — but rarely ever is it smelled. Historians and scientists across Europe have now gotten together with perfumers and museums for a unique project: to capture what Europe ...

A rich cultural legacy reinforces a commitment to solidarity. [ opinion ] In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of Persian monarchy with an opulent party for hundreds of ...

For thousands of years, the great civilisations and nations of Europe have had to endure regular attacks from a lethal foe: Mother Nature. From earthquakes and eruptions to fire and floods, the ...