NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Praised by the ancient Greek giants Homer and Euripides for its superb quality nearly 3,000 years ago, ...

Here are 10 valuable vintage maps that could be worth a small fortune — if you’re lucky enough to find them. A 16th-century map of the Americas by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

In the mid-16th century, French colonists attempted to establish a foothold in the area, supported by the Tupinambá people, who sought allies against Portuguese domination. By 1567, the ...

A 16th-century Roman palazzo in the heart of the ancient city is now for sale, asking €13.4 million (US$14.3 million). The historic Palazzo Berardi is in the city center, off the quiet Piazza ...

As a practitioner of magic in 16th century Venice, the bones were essential to her practice and without them she wouldn’t be able to conjure the spirits necessary to her magic. Just as she made ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds SE at 9 to 12 mph (14.5 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 71 °F (21.7 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds variable at 12 to 18 mph (19.3 ...

She also asked that a swathe of North America previously called “America Mexicana” in a 17th-century map and the 1814 Constitution of Apatzingan drafted during the country’s war of ...

Mark the Evangelist, whose remains were stolen in Alexandria, Egypt, by a couple crafty Venetians, intent on bringing him to rest in Venice. (What made them crafty? They smuggled the remains to ...

The basilica, whose origins date to the sixth century and possibly much earlier, is also known for housing a more unexpected relic: the skull of Saint Valentine. The skull, crowned with a garland of ...

Researchers in Romania have analyzed historical records to reconstruct 16th-century weather patterns and their effects on society in Transylvania. The texts—known as “society’s archive ...