European history

Security system at the Louvre didn’t capture the break-in because the lone camera in the area was looking the other way.

Head of security at the Louvre was a diversity hire who was chosen because of her characteristics rather than “competence”, it was claimed.

A report from the French Court of Auditors leaked in the wake of the spectacular jewellery robbery at the Louvre has found that there have been “persistent” delays to upgrading the famed museum’s security.

Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in decades: an unobstructed, scaffolding-free view of the Parthenon temple.

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year Saturday at the ancient Stonehenge monument.

Spanish researchers have claimed that DNA and other analyses indicate that Christopher Columbus likely came from a Jewish family in Spain.

A fascinating discovery that connected a group of volunteers to a past archeologist occurred recently on the northern coast of France.

In a Black Lives Matter-inspired move, a British university has cancelled the term “Anglo-Saxon” from its curriculum.

A fire broke out Saturday on the roof of Somerset House, a historic arts venue on the River Thames in central London.

Nigel Farage accused Rishi Sunak of lacking patriotism after the PM left D-Day ceremonies in France early to film an election interview.

Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves into now peaceful Normandy skies, opening a week of ceremonies for D-Day.

The British Empire and other European colonial powers did not enrich themselves through slavery and colonialism, a report asserted.

A British academic deploying “trans theory” onto the past, has claimed that the graves of Anglo-Saxon warriors indicate some were transgender.

Greece has unveiled the palace where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king before he launched a conquest that reached as far as Afghanistan.

Emmanuel Macron is facing outrage over plans to replace historic stained glass windows with modern verisions in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

Bologna announced 4.3 million euros to shore up the leaning Garisenda tower, one of the ‘Two Towers’ that look out over the city.

A left-wing-run museum in England has pronounced that a Roman Emperor was transgender and will be referred to by female pronouns.

Activists broke into the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa on Friday to drape the Palestinian flag from the 14th-century structure.

British police made their second arrest over the cutting down of a 300-year-old tree near the Roman landmark of Hadrian’s Wall in the northeast of England.

The German art historian who has led the British Museum since 2016 has stood down over a growing scandal over nearly 2,000 stolen artefacts.

Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England.

Tens of millions of pounds earmarked for universities in Britain have reportedly been spent on far-left projects including examining the allegedly racist history of a collection of dried plants and increasing LGBTQ+ “representation” in Medieval History, a report has claimed.

French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Hungary, noted for its strong border policies, has opened its arms to Ukrainian refugees despite having a policy of “blocking cooperation with Ukraine at every European Union and NATO forum” over the country’s treatment of its Hungarian minority until Russia invaded, an official told Breitbart News this week.

Viktor Orbán drew battle lines against the Hungarian left, their international backers in the European Union and foreign press, and Big Tech in a passionate, wide-ranging speech commemorating the 1956 uprising against the country’s then-communist puppet government.

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.

A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.

Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.

The Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ for some students”, as it has “complicity in white supremacy”.