Hellmann pointed out that, independently of the discovery by Columbus, the variation must have been known on the Continent, from the construction of many pocket. sundials provided with magnetic ...

Salem native Beverly Cooper Pierce has published her debut historical novel about the daily lives of Massachusetts women in the 18th century as they navigated the period’s culture of religious ...

On the left edge, a bronze stump indicates that the gnomon — the "hand" of a sundial — has broken off. When 18th-century archaeologists stumbled on the object in their excavation tunnels under ...

In his erratic and misguided effort to make the United States even more powerful, Trump may bring its period of dominance—what the American publisher Henry Luce first called “the American century”—to ...

When the Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan in 1860, British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram was lost to the deep, but 165 years later his pocket watch has returned home. The steamship ...

One such example of the ‘power within’ in India comes from the life and mission of Ahilyabai Holkar, the 18th century queen of Malwa, a princely state in today’s Madhya Pradesh. On May 31 ...

Describing the moment he found the 18th-century ring, Mr Weale said: "I knew this was something very special and I did a bit of a dance." Mr Weale, who has been a detectorist since he was seven ...

I'm very slow to the news that the MFA Houston opened a new temporary exhibition at the beginning of this year dedicated to Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British ...

Pieces of an 18th-century wooden gunboat buried deep beneath what was the World Trade Center were uncovered back in 2010. "It was found in landfill that was used to expand New York City." ...

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This very rare French pocket knife from the 19th century has been hidden away for generations. Watch as expert restoration reveals its original beauty and craftsmanship. Trump keeps control of ...

THE 18TH-CENTURY Maratha queen Devi Ahilyabai Holkar is seeing a revival in Madhya Pradesh, with the Mohan Yadav-led BJP government orchestrating one of the most comprehensive state-led cultural ...