Articles from category History

Voltaire (born François-Marie Arouet). Source: Musée Carnavalet

Manufacturing fake news: Voltaire in the service of Russian propaganda

Voltaire – an Enlightenment icon of liberty – helped legitimize Russia’s military intervention in Poland. Research by Dr. Jacek Kordel of the University of Warsaw shows he not only corresponded…

Antalya – a city in southwestern Turkey, in the ancient region of Pamphylia – was once part of the Eastern Roman Empire. Photo: Engin Akyurt/Pexels

Did climate change and epidemics trigger a crisis in the Eastern Roman Empire? New research offers answers

Mud, torrential rain, fierce winds, scorching heat, and bitter cold have shaped the course of battles, determined the outcomes of wars, and altered the fate of nations. Weather has always…

Team members Andrés Rea and Dr. Lorena Pérez Yarza at the epigraphic exhibition in Aachen.

A stone more enduring than the Roman Empire. Could this open the door to a new understanding of change in Ancient Europe?

The history we learn in school is usually the history of elites. After all, aren’t the sources that shape our understanding of the past largely created by them? Yet in…

Caspar Waser, Archetypus Grammaticæ Hebrææ Duabus præcipius partibus, Etymologia & Syntaxi absolutus, Basileæ, 1600 (C. Norwid Library, Elbląg, SD. XVI.1480); title page with Samuel Meienreis’s signature and the front endleaf guard from the ‘N’ Psalter. Photo by Dr Dorota Jutrzenka-Supryn.

The turbulent fate of a psalter book: scientists uncover a thousand years of history written on parchment strips

How did fragments of a book – which, legend has it, may have once belonged to the last Anglo-Saxon princess who fled the British Isles a thousand years ago –…