A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down ...

D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...

Experts at the University of Ferrara in Italy claim that darker complexions were the norm throughout Europe for the vast ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

As a young backpacker, I fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

Dreaming of sailing to the Greek Islands? Nic Compton narrates leg two of his odyssey from the UK to Greece starting at the ...

Village People’s recent incarnation has had a complicated relationship with the “make America great again” movement (Maga). In 2020, their song YMCA began featuring at Maga anti-lockdown ...

Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and ...