Constructed in the 16th century using mortar bricks and lime plaster, the helical step-well descends seven levels and contains 11 rooms below ground. Sen said, adding that her aim is to raise ...

The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.

As the U.S. celebrates National Lingerie Day, we take a look back at the beginnings of the modern bra. Today, April 25, is National Lingerie Day in the United States - but it could just as easily be ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with ...

GUNTUR: A 16th-century stone inscription from the Vijayanagara Empire era is gradually sinking into the ground at the Vankeswara temple in Durgi mandal headquarters, Palnadu district, raising ...

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Many also believe the oracle has predicted the return on the 17th century plague in the words: 'A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.' In an even more ...