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 ...
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, ...
A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We ...
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 ...
Snow can truly change the landscape of any place. Draped in white, houses, fields, and mountains can look truly magical. That atmosphere can be found in several locations across Europe. You have the ...
Long ago, I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but recently I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt. I arrived in Erfurt by train and hopped in a taxi to my ...
Regensburg is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval cities, which stands at the meeting point of the Danube, Naab, and Regen rivers. Founded on Roman foundations and expanded in the Middle Ages, it ...
Update: Mennonite Life has an Intro to German Script class, 10-11:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. The class will teach the basics of reading German script and include the chance to interpret 18th- and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...