The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

“He starts out an admirer of Zulu culture,” and expresses “opposition ... also featured a sizeable Jewish population in the early 19th century. While his father exited the historical record ...

Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.

An historic Jesuit church was the setting for a celebration of one of Britain's most unique artists this week.Joseph Mallory ...

Long unseen and known only through a 19th-century photograph, the painting Preparing Coffee reemerges with a £1–1.5M estimate ...

A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left in disbelief after discovering his collection of walking sticks is worth over $400,000.

Actress Rukmini Maitra-starrer “Binodiini Ekti Natir Upakhyan” helmed by National Award-winning filmmaker Ram Kamal Mukherjee ...

The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando ...

One of the greatest innovations benefiting public health was regulation. In the pre-FDA "patent medicine" days, there were countless products on the market that ranged from useless to directly harmfu ...

What is Israel's Independence Day and how is it celebrated? In this guide, cover a short history, with facts about the ...