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

While the idea of a sweet treat dates back thousands of years, the concept of "candy" has been around for hundreds of years. These are some of the oldest candies in human history.

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta. A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa Farnesina in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Argentine authorities recovered a 17th-century painting on Wednesday that was apparently stolen by the Nazis during World War II, the Mar del Plata Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement. The ...

With this selection of historical novels, you can journey to various times and places: the royal courts of Henry VIII in ...

Ryogoku is known as the home of sumo. As we explore, we learn how the sport took root after a devastating fire in the 17th ...