Thirty feet under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ...

Journalist-turned-author and publisher Anand wants to ‘meet’ Kabir. His latest book, The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water ...

For those who crave a European getaway but lack the time and resources, head to this spectacular Virginia estate that is like ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

Beyond the main attraction of Stonehenge, Wiltshire has equally impressive ancient sites, giant chalk horses and cosy pubs in ...

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

Mátészalka, in Hungary’s north-east, has offered to be home to a statue of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc), which is to be removed ...

Five years ago, members of a British historical society set out on a search to find a lost 15th-century palace that belonged ...

One of the dishes Reuben Kendall cooked for a feast this past Christmas was flavored with pumpkin spice — cinnamon, nutmeg, ...

The history of fishing in modern times reflects humanity's evolving relationship with marine and freshwater ecosystems. With ...