The lesson was this: In the tumultuous social and political world of Tudor England, advancement could come readily to young ...

Two 16th-century cannons unearthed in Arizona may be ... They also found the remains of the expedition's swords, daggers and ...

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 ...

At San Gerónimo III, for instance, two cannons were found at the center of the site, along with fragments of daggers, swords, musket balls, and parts of primitive firearms. Classic arrowheads, both ...

Far from the 19th-century red brick buildings that house the production facilities, employees outfitted in goggles and earplugs test explosives starting at 7 a.m. After a particularly loud ...

A 16th-century painting stolen from an English manor house and later recovered at a bus stop has sold for an astonishing $22.3 million. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” is an early work by ...

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.

The map dominated for the next five decades, but it took another century for experts to acknowledge some depictions weren’t realistic—and it took until the early 1700s for new maps to exclude ...

The use of the palatial 16th century Madeley Court Hotel as a migrant hotel at the end of a leafy drive in Telford, Shropshire, has been highlighted in recent days by a string of right wing ...

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...

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 ...