Fossil fuels accounted for nearly 30% of electricity production in the European Union (EU) in 2025, while renewable energy remained the bloc's leading source of power.
Preliminary Eurostat data show that fossil fuels generated 29.6% of EU electricity during the...
Venice is a city that defies logic. Built on a swamp, it shouldn’t exist. Yet, it not only stands but thrives as a marvel of human ingenuity. Venice’s foundation is as much a testament to human resilience as to...
A statue believed to be the tallest Virgin Mary statue in Europe was unveiled Saturday in the small Polish village of Konotopie, home to fewer than 150 people. The concrete monument stands 182 feet tall, including a 49-foot pedestal...
Archaeologists and building researchers in southern Germany have discovered that a medieval cellar ceiling was built with timbers from a ship, including a remarkably complete section of its hull.
The find was made in Konradigasse in Konstanz, on Lake Constance....
Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric settlement of Lucone in northern Italy have uncovered a rare Bronze Age clay tablet, complete and marked with mysterious signs. The find adds a new example to a group of Bronze Age objects whose purpose...
Germany is signaling that migrant and asylum transfers to Greece could resume under the European Union's new migration framework, raising fresh questions only months after Athens declared it had cleared outstanding obligations from the previous system.
The issue has emerged...
Italy has recovered three paintings worth more than $10 million that were stolen during a nighttime heist at a private museum near Parma, police said Friday.
The Carabinieri's art recovery unit said searches ordered by prosecutors led to the recovery...
Construction workers renovating a building in Belgium have uncovered more than 40 gold bars and at least 4,000 old coins hidden inside a cellar wall. Reports estimate the cache is worth about €9 million ($10 million).
Workers found the valuables...
Archaeologists in Suffolk, England, have uncovered evidence that a Bronze Age barrow later became the center of a Roman religious shrine, showing how the same location remained important for more than 2,000 years. The site at Red Lodge began...
An Iron Age hillfort in rural Devon has emerged as a possible site of one of the most significant Viking defeats in Anglo-Saxon England, potentially offering new clues to a centuries-old mystery.
Castle Hill, near Beaford in North Devon, is...
A new global survey has identified Cyprus as the European Union country with the highest level of antisemitic attitudes, according to the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Global 100 index. Researchers found that 58 percent of Cypriot adults hold elevated anti-Jewish...
Underwater archaeologists have discovered a huge Roman dolium and the remains of a possible shipwreck off Italy’s Elba Island. The two finds could shed new light on centuries of trade and maritime activity in the waters of the Tuscan...
A Roman shipwreck carrying hundreds of ancient amphorae has been discovered in waters off the coast of Sicily, near the town of Mazara del Vallo, Italian officials announced.
The wreck was located about three miles from shore, resting at a...
The story of the world-famous Leonidas chocolates and pralines is as rich as the confections themselves. It all began with a Greek chocolatier Leonidas Kestekides, who created the great confections because he ultimately just "wanted to spread some happiness."
The...
Extremely low water levels in the Danube River have exposed parts of the foundations of the ancient bridge of Constantine the Great, giving Bulgarian archaeologists a rare opportunity to study one of antiquity’s most impressive engineering achievements. The remains...
