A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Discovered during a highway interchange project, the site offers some insight into the lives of formerly enslaved people in ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811 ...

Historically, Quakers have been involved in peaceful protests to end wars and slavery, and support women ... the “Flushing Remonstrance” — a 17th century document that called for religious ...

ITALY: John and Angelo Zorn from Novato spent three nights at Astapiana Villa Giusso, a 17th-century monastery overlooking the Sorrento peninsula and Bay of Naples. Now a sprawling estate with ...

Apparently executed during a late 17th century restoration of Cupid and Psyche, the forgotten works were in pristine condition and had been hidden for nearly two centuries. “My first feeling was ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings could help shed light on a mysterious gravesite at the camp. Photo from ...

Robbie Williams has revealed he has been diagnosed with scurvy, calling it a “17th-century pirate disease”. The NHS says scurvy is “caused by not having enough vitamin C in your diet over a ...

“What makes Alain’s discovery so very important is that it provides the link between the church architecture plan used at Jamestown in 1608 and plans later in the 17th century elsewhere in ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

More than 3,000 handwoven Persian carpets, some dating back to the 17th century, will soon be available in Ras Al Khaimah. The collection showcases detailed designs and patterns lasting for ...

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN—The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, has been excavated by ...