Archaeologists solved the mystery of the ruins of the Desolate Castle, determining that the mysterious site on the Danube River shore was once part of a crucial Roman trade route.

It is believed that the Amber Road, a trade route connecting the Roman Empire with the Baltic region, crossed the Danube at the Ödes Schloss site. Therefore, the fortress would have been ...

In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification ... and Noricum were assimilated into the Roman empire, even providing auxiliary troops who served with ...

Lithuanian language peculiarities point to an origin in the region east of the Baltic Sea ... the displacements caused by the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the 1918 influenza pandemic ...

A shock study now suggests that a skeleton in Alexander the Great's family tomb once thought to be King Phillip II isn't the ...

All of the infants had been buried in the Roman period ... created an empire that stretched across three continents. This covered from Greece in the west, to Egypt in the south, Danube in the ...

Rudimentary forms of open-cast mining and metallurgy had been a mainstay of the economy since chalcolithic times.

Palaces and castles in Austria tell the story of the country's fascinating and rich past. Here are 20 Austrian castles you ...

Whether biking to castles or kayaking through gorges, a trip centred on this river is the epitome of European romance.