The benefit of fragmentation is the central idea of Scheidel’s Escape from Rome, published in 2019. The idea was not new. But ...

When students learn “Western Civilization” in schools and universities, the implicit message is that Europe has always been the world’s most advanced cultural and political region. The idea is that ...

The best book to read if you are interested in the history of economic ideas. First published in 1953, it covers some of the most consequential early economists, from Adam Smith to Thomas Malthus to ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the ...

Flowing from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine River connects six countries and fuels one of the world’s most ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the ...

LUXEMBOURG– United States Army Garrison Poland’s inaugural Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers trip saw more than 50 Soldiers trek through the history of Western Europe and even earn a foreign ...

Looking at DNA gleaned from ancient remains, researchers identified at least eight previously unknown populations of early Europeans. Two 14,000-year-old skulls, one male and one female, found in ...

In 2009, developer BioWare released the medieval fantasy game Dragon Age: Origins. At the time of its release, the game was praised by critics and currently holds a 91 PC score on Metacritic. As the ...

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe. The ...