When it comes to European Christmas markets, Germany is famous for their annual holiday tradition as streets are transformed ...

Swapping the barbecues and beach cricket of Sydney for the snow-dusted streets of Budapest and Munich was a revelation for ...

Today in History for Dec. 13: In 304, St. Lucy is said to have cut out her eyes and sent them to a persistent but unwelcome suitor who said he was haunted by them. This sent the message that he must ...

Tracy Hyman enjoys a powerful, theatrical performance, with elaborate stage design and lighting from The Last Dinner Party ...

Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill’s performance in St. Canice’s Cathedral feels like a confessional. It is an evening of ...

Even if you’re not a fan of the commercialization of the holidays, store displays can be works of art. But collectors of antique advertising have known this for a long time.

Archaeologists have played shell trumpets from Neolithic Catalonia, revealing they were highly effective for long-distance ...

The research, published in the journal Antiquity by archaeologist and professional trumpet player Miquel López-García and his colleague Margarita Díaz-Andreu from the University of Barcelona, examined ...

Modern people often think of the Middle Ages as an unsophisticated period, when science and technology were almost unheard of. This is especially true of medieval weapons and warfare. Depictions of ...

Researchers in Spain trace 6,000-year-old Neolithic shell trumpets to Catalonia, revealing their role in long‑distance communication.

Des Knaben Wunderhorn is a collection of more than 700 German folk poems and songs compiled in the early 19th Century. Several notable composers, including Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms, ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...