A century ago, nurseries were filled with baby names that now feel very vintage, but according to the so-called "100-year ...

made by a German working in Florence named Henricus Martellus, has long been overlooked because fading obscured much of its text. Until now. A new analysis reveals hundreds of place names and 60 ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Millions visit the Sistine Chapel every year - making it the second most visited museum in the world - but it will now ...

Pope Benedict’s shocking announcement on Feb. 11, 2013 that he would resign the ministry of the Bishop of Rome reverberates ...

The study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage set out to determine the age and origin of the wooden covers used to bind the 15th-century codex ... a Latin-German dictionary, says ...

While some may have considered the likes of Beaumaris or Benllech as the go-to destinations of Anglesey, Porthaethwy has ...

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over the course of a few months, who have ...

About 200 of the 266 men to hold the title of pope hailed from within the borders of Italy. Here is a look at others, like Pope Francis, who didn't.

Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller's journey to find them leads to something even more powerful: living memory.

It is testament to his devotion to his church and its 1.4 billion adherents that Pope Francis insisted upon being seen at St ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...