The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were also common, according to a historian at the University of Oslo.

A decision to plant vineyards on the mountainsides in a wine region in Southern France has made elegant and refreshing wines ...

The Rhône Valley is one of France’s—and the world’s—finest winemaking regions, but it is often overshadowed by Burgundy and ...

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...

Pompeii’s DNA analysis reveals unexpected ancestry diversity. Genetic findings question Pompeii’s traditional family beliefs. Pompeii’s population shows Mediterranean ancestry diversity.

Bernard, also known as St. Bernard of Menthon, lived from about 1020–1081 in what are now the countries of France, ...

There's no better gift than the gift of travel, and for cyclists that means one of these 12 awesome bike trips.

To walk into the Creole House Museum in French Settlement is to enter into a time capsule that reflects the long history of ...

The saying goes that it takes a village to raise a child, and new research out of Pompeii seems to showcase just how common ...