The late esteemed English actor Christopher Lee traced his ancestry directly to Charlemagne. In 2010 Lee released a symphonic metal album paying homage to the first Holy Roman emperor—but his ...

Charlemagne ruled most of Western Europe in the so-called Dark Ages, bringing about a renaissance in culture, diplomacy, and warfare.

The relics of Charlemagne, long on display at a treasury in Germany, are likely the real bones of the Frankish king, scientists say. Last Tuesday (Jan. 28) marked exactly 1,200 years since ...

Stepping back into the annals of history, few figures loom as large and captivating as Charlemagne, a monarch whose life was a tapestry woven with conquest, reform, and a profound vision for a ...

WHAT better way for a new columnist to begin writing Charlemagne than to draw inspiration from Karolus Magnus himself? My first outing, then, is to Aachen, the closest thing that the peripatetic ...

A lost warmind may be returning through Destiny 2's Black Armory, and could be the one doling out all these Niobe Labs puzzles.

If you count your direct ancestors backward through time, the further back you go, the more ancestors you have. But when you do the numbers, something queer happens.

A rare coin featuring Charlemagne was rediscovered in a private collection and sold, via eBay, to a museum.

In Haiti, the musician's politically charged lyrics helped elect a president and nearly got him killed. But now, after a term as mayor of Port-au-Prince, Charlemagne lives in Miami. The earthquake ...

A marvelously abundant, even overstuffed installation by artist and composer Charlemagne Palestine fills an industrial warehouse space with tons of plush comfort, kaleidoscopic color and rhythmic ...