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 ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts.

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.

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

Lucy Moore explores how Baker became the most celebrated American in Paris. Lucy Moore - An American in Paris Lucy Moore: An American in Paris - Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker ...

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 ...

Researchers are beginning to release details about a 16th-century Catholic saint whose body was found miraculously "incorrupt" last year. St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila ...

Archaeologists have discovered over 100 horse skeletons from Roman times, dating back to the 2nd century AD ... major Roman military hub in southwest Germany. The cavalry unit ("Ala") stationed ...

Francis played a crucial role in reforming the Church, focusing on empathy and the act of listening. While the pope leaves behind an interesting legacy, some believe his death was foreshadowed as ...

Bragg, Jr., has announced the return of a pivotal 16th-century manuscript to the rightful hands of Paraguay. This document, which once fell into the hands of a New York City book dealer after its ...