The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

More vital, maybe, was the 12th-century presence of Héloise, wife of Abélard and France’s first feminist writer. Wrote Abélard: “She is not bad in the face but her copious writings are ...

Not since the 1970s has there been such an important discovery from the Great War in France. In woods on a ridge ... soldiers have lain for more than a century - after they died the most agonising ...

It also contains various attractions, such as the Hospices de Beaune, a magnificently preserved 15th-century hospital, and the gorgeous Basilique Collégiale Notre Dame. Starting in the 12th ...

In the French town of Eu, a team of volunteer archaeologists stumbled upon a 200-year-old message in a bottle. The note was ...

A photo taken in 2021 showing a beach near Montpellier, France that has already shrunk due to sea level rise and coastal erosion. (Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP) The map of France is changing due to ...

It spread from there across North Africa and was brought into Europe by the Spanish Moors during the 12th century ... in France, a "hackbrett" in Germany, and a "cymbalon" in Hungary. In England it ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip that's especially popular with travelers interested in seeing Monet's house and gardens or the D-Day Beaches. But if you only ...

The argument goes that, sometime around the game’s medieval beginnings, in 12th-century France, tenez functioned as a sort of verbal ritual, a fair warning called out by servers to their ...

A German man discovered a historically significant stone carving from the 12th century during recent home renovations in the town of Klotzow on the nation’s northern coast. Just centimeters ...

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