On 12 July 2025, the World Heritage Committee inscribed The Archaeological Landscape of 17th Century Port Royal, Jamaica on ...

Before there were prisons in this country, we had what were known as ‘Houses of Correction’.  These were established in the late 16th century as places for the punishment and reform, through hard ...

A Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several ...

A timber-framed building in Wakefield, which was built in 1590, is home to the oldest public house in the city.

Cookies themselves have existed for thousands of years, with some of the earliest comparable baked goods dating all the way back to early Persia in the 7th century ... by European colonizers in the ...

Dr. Astrid Giugni (English and Information Science + Studies) leads the Bass Connections project “Ethical Consumption before ...

It summarized all the published literature about Mars since the time of Galileo in the 17th century. This work, he reported, required him to review 572 drawings of Mars.

The colophon within the 17th-century Quran manuscript from UPenn Ms. Codex 1904 at the Princeton University Library.

The surplus of art in 17th-century Italy paradoxically offered greater opportunity to artists and collectors by expanding the art audience to a lower-class, yet more entrepreneurial, patronage ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, he recovered the history of vanquished radicals like the Levellers and the ...

This Exhibition of George Loudon’s Collection in Venice Resurrects the 17th-Century Wunderkammer “A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature” pairs the author's scientific ...

Seeking a journey back to the days of early America? Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site in Harbor, Maine, is a perfectly preserved 17th-century village that feels like living history!