There was no lack of German ingenuity when the earliest European settlers of Lancaster County arrived around 1710. The architectural traditions of design, function and construction that served them ...

What are the easiest Germanic languages to learn for English speakers? Not every language is equally easy or equally hard to learn. How fast will a person acquire a new language definitely depends on ...

History portrays them as the bitterest of enemies, but a discovery near a village in western Slovakia almost 60 years ago shows that there wasn't always a violent antipathy between the Romans and ...

Archaeologists working in a sprawling wetland in Denmark uncovered 2,000-year-old human remains that challenge traditional ideas about "barbarian" warfare in northern Europe. The research, published ...

Far outside the walls of the Colosseum in Rome, clans prepared to battle the Romans in Europe by taking hits from an attachment on their belts, researchers say. Yoal Desurmont via Unsplash In the ...

The discipline of Germanic philology studies the German language, the literature and culture of German-speaking countries, as well as the historical transformation and evolution of the language. At ...

Europe’s linguistic landscape is shifting once again, and at the heart of this evolution are the Germanic languages, one of the continent’s most influential language families. From the North ...

When a strong Germanic signal was discovered in the Y-chromosome of British men, geneticists at University College London suggested that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was ...