The 17th century is often seen as one of history’s most turbulent and miserable eras, marked by war, famine, disease, and social upheaval across much of the world. Europe was ravaged by the Thirty ...

It began as a routine check of some cables in the Renaissance Villa Farnesina in Rome... But what electrician Davide Renzoni uncovered when he opened a ceiling trapdoor was nothing short of ...

In Milan, bones that piled under a hospital over a half-century shed light on the health and habits of some of the ...

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 ...

Part of the 17th-century foundation will be visible through a glass floor section in the new archaeology center. Brendan Sostak / The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Last spring, crews broke ground ...

Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary as well as the extraordinary lives of women in the home. This was an age when respectable women were defined by their marital status as maids, wives or widows. If ...

The Kimbell Art Museum announced on Friday that it has acquired a long-lost 17th-century painting depicting the Christian saint Mary Magdalene. For perhaps the first time since its creation, the work ...