When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A hoard of silver coins minted in the Carolingian Empire about 1,200 years ago has been unearthed ...

A new hoard of 13 silver denarii coins minted in the 9th century during the Carolingian Empire have been unearthed by archeologists near the village of Biskupiec Pomorski in northeastern Poland.

Charlemagne is a pivotal figure in European history, known for establishing a vast empire in the 700s and influencing the formation of the French monarchy and German dynasties. He famously compelled ...

EUROPE CAME INTO the world as a political idea in the year 800, or so many historians have long argued. That was the moment when Charlemagne, the leader of the rising Carolingian dynasty, received the ...

In 858, an event took place that scandalised Europe. At a public assembly, a Frankish king, Lothar II, accused his wife Theutberga of the most outrageous crimes, in order to secure a divorce so he ...

Eric J. Goldberg, Ph.D., professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will visit Lycoming College as the annual Ewing lecturer to deliver a talk entitled, “Soldiers, Rapine, ...