Researchers are beginning to release details about a 16th-century Catholic saint whose body was found miraculously "incorrupt" last year. St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila ...

WARNING: This article contains graphic images. Reader discretion is advised. The well-preserved body of an early modern saint was put on display in Spain on Sunday, months after she was discovered ...

As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th-century shipwreck. The Emanuel Point II met its demise around 1559 ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand account of a 16th-century Ethiopian monk visiting old Dongola, Sudan.

A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa Farnesina in Rome revealed previously unknown frescoes by the painter Carlo Maratta and two students.Credit...Filippo Monteforte/Agence ...