A woman hiking through the Italian Alps made a startling discovery when she happened upon the remains of an ancient ecosystem. Claudia Steffensen was hiking with her husband in the Valtellina ...

Few places on the planet pack more natural beauty and stunning ancient artwork into one location than this scenic European mountain getaway.

In the case of this statue, "We have no comparison," Nicod said. Other discoveries, such as these valuable belongings of a 17th-century man, shed light on the economy of the ancient Alps.

A woman hiking in the Italian Alps discovered a fragment of a 280 million-year-old ecosystem, complete with footprints, plant fossils and even the imprints of raindrops, researchers have confirmed.

A recent discovery by archaeologists in the Swiss Alps promises to shed light on ancient Roman activity in Switzerland. Diggers unearthed the remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman wall in the ...

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"It will force us to turn back the history of Christianity in Frankfurt and far beyond by around 50 to 100 years. The first Christian find north of the Alps comes from our city: we can be proud of ...

Annual growth rings inside the ancient remains of Scots pine trees in the Southern French Alps have revealed evidence of the largest-known solar storm, one that might have fried satellites and ...