Excavated in 2004 from a 17th-century privy under Rochester Independent College, the bottle had been forgotten until Crozier’s discovery. “Someone joked it might be a witch bottle,” she says.

The central hall of Raffaele Fabrizio’s 17th-century palazzo in Valmorea, Italy, a village near Lake Como, features trompe l’oeil windows and a vaulted ceiling with faux coffered panels. The ...

In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living. Now archaeologists have found the remains of a suspected child revenant.

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, intended to stop her from rising from the dead.

An X-ray image of a metal tasset — a piece of 17th-century armor that protected a thigh — unearthed at the archaeological site of the 1634 settlement at St. Mary's, the first European ...