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 remains of a female “vampire” with a sickle across her throat are seen on Aug. 30 after they were unearthed at an archaeological site in a 17th-century cemetery in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

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 ...

Most notably, both include a song by Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) called "Torna o torna pargoletto," originally published in a 1611 collection. It's the only known 17th-century source for the song.