In the small Peruvian town of Eten, the faithful flock every year to celebrate an apparent 17th century miracle featuring ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

Maritime enthusiasts might remember the Galeón Andalucía, the replica 17th century warship that sailed into London last summer. If you liked that, we have good news, because another mighty vessel is ...

Zugspitze – Germany’s Highest Mountain and a Gateway to the Alps (4K) Charles Barkley expresses concern about Bill Belichick ...

From sewing labels into garments to using live models, Charles Frederick Worth was a pioneer that shaped the global fashion ...

Five millennia ago, wealth inequality—which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years—exploded. It has stayed ...

The 17th-century inn has lost all of its character, with no chance of a decent cask ale or even an interesting bottle ...

The excellent historical novel by Chen Yao-Cheng (陳耀昌) is a gripping tale of Taiwan in the 17th century, called Formosa at ...

In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to The Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by the English printer John Dunton, with a ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...