Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

Journalists and politicians dare not speak its name — but that doesn't mean COVID hasn't got a serious legacy.

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...

Europe is riddled with eerie ghost towns, from depopulated military and mining towns and drowned villages to ancient enclaves ...

By Will Hawkes As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, pelting like bullets past me. I hauled open ...

The Black Death was far from unique: the first of the great plague pandemics swept across Europe in the second and third centuries AD, and the Celtic monks of Wales and Ireland chronicled the second, ...

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

Authorities across Central Europe are working to contain a major foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, the first in over 50 years ...

A study has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The relative risk of mortality at the coldest temperatures has decreased by 2% ...

Survival guides, stockpiling and mass evacuation drills. Europe is scrambling to prepare its citizens for the growing threat of conflict arriving on its doorstep. Several European nations have ...

The Romanian Navy deployed its forces to the full in the Black Sea, with dozens of ships, patrol planes, helicopters, and thousands of military personnel taking part in the large naval exercise.