A recent study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa explores new historical evidence of one of pre-colonial ...

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...

Although undated, the archaeological context provides a reliable timeframe. Coins minted during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (1623–1640) were found in the same room, placing their creation ...

For years, a 17th-century portrait of a child hid on the back of a door in an English cottage that was crammed with antiques, rarely seen even by the eccentric collector who lived there. Now, ...

Take a tour of Rawla Narlai – a meticulously restored time capsule where every limestone brick and silk cushion honours the ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...

A document found in a 17th-century landfill confirms the existence of the Nubian king Qashqash, previously considered legendary.

PIEN, Poland (WKRC) - Archaeologists discovered the remains of a female “vampire” in a graveyard with a sickle around her neck. Professor Dariusz Poliski led the archaeological dig with Nicholas ...

“We have realized that a lot of this ship still is preserved. It rests in very shallow water, but despite the fact that people have been salvaging the rig and the guns and so on after the wreckage, a ...

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