In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

Your city itinerary includes hidden basement bars, wide-open parks, and secluded mews with appealing restaurants.

Ships of the line were built specifically for war and boasted heavy armor as well as overwhelming firepower, while galleons ...

The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their ...

Astonishing treasures not seen for three centuries have been discovered deep on the seabed - but a furious dispute is already brewing over a US firm's claim to the trove.

The Susan Constant, the largest of the three recreated 17th-century vessels at Jamestown Settlement, will not participate in Saturday’s Jamestown Day festivities because it remains in ...

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...

As a result, most pirates avoided attacking British Navy ships and instead focused on the naval fleets of Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, three of England's enemies in the 17th century.

In the late 17th Century, when Madras was a fledgling colony of the British East India Company, Samuel Browne, an English physician, made an exceptional effort to document the region’s flora.

The ship's hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, and the museum is open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Award: No. 8 in best museum ship Location: Building 22, Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown ...

By the 17th century, surgeons were a regular presence on English merchant and naval ships. This was an era of improved ship technology, maritime exploration and rapidly developing global trade and ...

Captain William Kidd, a notorious 17th-century Scottish privateer, is said to have buried treasure that he previously pilfered during his seafaring days. He was initially commissioned by the British ...