In 1660, a ship carrying luxury goods sank off the coast of Texel in the North Sea. A rare collection, including a silver wedding dress, intact clothing, leather book bindings and other luxury ...

On 11 August 1676, a 31-year-old nun was found on the floor of her convent cell, her face doused in ink, clutching a note scrawled in an unintelligible mix of symbols and letters. The sister ...

While conducting a routine measurement in the Trave river, the Kiel-Holtenau Waterways and Shipping Authority (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt/WSA) discovered a ship at a depth of eleven ...

There's old wine, and then there's old wine. As in the 300-year-old wine that Christie's is auctioning off soon. Next week in London, the auction house is selling off what it says is its oldest ...

Domestic violence. Drug smuggling. Priests hauled into court for scandalous behavior. Welcome to Spain in the 17th century. Historian Lu Ann Homza took five students to Pamplona, Spain over spring ...

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 ...