Coming 85 years to the day after Germany’s invasion of Poland, marking the start of World War II and the unspeakable horrors ...

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of human history, scientists have successfully decoded the oldest DNA ever ...

It’s the sort of discovery that every historian dreams of. An unknown piece of music by Mozart has been found in the east ...

Till Lindemann was born on January 4, 1963 in Leipzig, East Germany to Brigitte, a journalist for the public radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, and Werner, a poet.

Hidden in the forests of eastern Germany are relics of the Cold War. This documentary follows experts as they search for ...

Researchers have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa from two people who lived around 10,000 ...

The genetic sequences were from a man and a woman whose remains were found at a rock shelter near the southern coastal town of George, about 370 kilometres (230 miles) east of Cape Town ...

As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?

Trying to bring to life a regional partnership in Central Asia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit was motivated by geopolitics ...

The Flugplatz Brandis Waldpolenz, near Leipzig, Germany - served as one of the most important Luftwaffe testing sites during the Nazi era.

Drew Colby (of Eastbourne, East Sussex) made an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest projected shadow.