At the time of his landing, Gustavus Adolphus was thirty-six years old. Tall, but broad in proportion so that his height seemed less, fair, florid, his pointed beard and short hair were of a tawny ...

SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY—Live Science reports that bioarchaeologists have analyzed 47 skeletons of soldiers killed during the Battle of Lützen, fought on November 16, 1632, by Protestant forces ...

Burg Querfurt in Saxony-Anhalt boasts a history spanning over a thousand years and is currently the largest and oldest fortress along the 1,200-kilometer Romanesque Road. For more than 30 years, this ...

The Thirty Years War started as a localized conflict but quickly ballooned out into a multinational conflict that tore across the countryside. But the ones who bore the brunt of the damage were ...

Researchers Catalogue the Grisly Deaths of Soldiers in the Thirty Years’ War The 47 bodies were found in a mass grave from the Battle of Lützen, one of the turning points in the devastating ...

The Thirty Years War (1618-48) isn’t exactly a household word, though maybe it should be. Its atrocities and devastation were a trial run for the world wars of the 20th century, and it left us ...

This documentary drama series tells the story of the Thirty Years War from the perspective of the people who experienced it: like the soldier Peter Hagendorf, the "Winter Queen" Elisabeth Stuart ...

Ending the new Thirty Years war Why the real history of the Peace of Westphalia in 17th-century Europe offers a model for bringing stability to the Middle East.

Rare Discovery Mass Grave from Thirty Years' War Found Although the war raged for three decades, up to now only one mass grave from the Thirty Years' War had been discovered in Germany.

At the end of the war, Peter Hagendorf has journeyed more than 20,000 km throughout all of Europe and lost two wives and eight of his nine children. Barbara Xeller is charged with witchcraft ...