Towns and villages across the Caribbean bear names that pay homage to Irish immigrants. Locations such as Kildare, Sligoville and Ulster Spring can be found in Jamaica, with the phone book filled ...

And last month, Chmielewski made one of his most exciting discovery yet: a partially intact set of hussar armor from the 17th century. The armor, discovered in the village of Mikułowice ...

From wandering and jumping hours to more unusual displays, we track how telling time has changed through horological history.

He was unmoved by literature and poetry but loved mechanics and technology, inventing an elaborate system of sundials which ... Image caption, In the 17th Century, alchemists searched for the ...

The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the 14th to 17th Century. New translations of important texts from Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece provided fresh ideas and knowledge that had ...

The botanical collection spans a period from the 17th century to the present and includes a number of historically important collections such as those of: Our collection is one of the largest in the ...