During a recent restoration in the Cathedral of Toledo, a team of experts discovered a set of mural paintings by Juan de ...

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

For more than 500 years, people have marveled at the Torre dell’Orologio, the magnificent clock tower on Piazza San Marco in ...

Kendrick Lamar sets Super Bowl record with controversial halftime show during Chiefs-Eagles showdown 'He called me a liar': Verona Murphy's lack of Irish called into question in heated Dáil exchange ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

The Capitoline Museums in Rome have just today opened an exhibition exploring the history of The Farnese in sixteenth-century Rome. The show draws together one hundred and forty masterpieces including ...

Halfway down the Grand Canal is the shop-lined 16th-century Rialto bridge ... and visit "fair Verona". What makes Santa Maria dei Miracoli so special is the fact that Pietro Lombardo, who designed ...

The 16th Battalion AIF was raised from 16 September 1914, six weeks after the outbreak of the First World War. Three-quarters of the battalion were recruited in Western Australia, and the rest in ...

Verona Murphy spent her first full day in the Dáil this week and had her work cut out for her as tension rose, causing her to suspend the meeting twice. Failing to pass the position of Taoiseach back ...