500-year-old diaries tell a story of plague, famine and ‘despair’ in Transylvania
Researchers are using diary entries, travel notes, religious registers, and other primary historical records to better understand extreme climate shifts in Transylvania during the 16th century.
Long-Buried Secret Exposed Under 16th-Century Titian Painting Of Jesus
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
Historical Records Unveil 16th Century Transylvania’s Climate Struggles
Historical records detail Transylvania’s 16th-century climate struggles, revealing the effects of droughts, floods, and famine.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN23h
Why Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000 Years Ago?
Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...
Artnet9h
What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines
The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...
California’s big, storied past gets a nuanced, superbly researched retelling in one volume
Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...
WLRN20h
A piano was missing from Vizcaya for more than 100 years. It's been returned to its original home
A historic Steinway & Sons piano has returned to Vizcaya Museum & Gardens after a century. The 1916 piano was documented in ...
Asia Society14h
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