It started with a Dutch engineer's plot to convince workers to complete a levee project, protecting a key entrance into Rome ...

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

When intern Erin Cullen unearthed a skull in a 17th-century cellar ... African woman recovered in an early 18th-century grave tells of a hard life of physical labor. Back trauma is evident ...

The recent excavation also turned up an array of other artifacts that help paint a picture of daily life in a 17th-century military camp. Among the pieces found were buttons, needles, silver wire ...

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

Apparently executed during a late 17th century restoration of Cupid and Psyche, the forgotten works were in pristine condition and had been hidden for nearly two centuries. “My first feeling was ...

One of the lessons of “‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer,’” Mary Beth Norton’s delightful compendium of 17th-century advice to the lovelorn, is a sobering one to us today: Things that we ...

The texts are quotations from the satirical poet Juvenal, active in Rome in the early second century AD ... enjoyed tax-free status for life. He only paid tax if an item was already subject ...

Its presence in a 17th-century engraving was conclusive proof that pterosaurs did not, as scientists had long claimed, go extinct millions of years before humans were around. In fact, these ...