When George Laing followed his dreams of buying a one-euro home in Sicily, he was prepared for the hard graft that would ...

In this city of endless museums and galleries, here are some sequestered collections filled with rarities.

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution ...

University of Otago’s Crowley said the acid was probably in a 19th century medical box because it was a phenol. “Phenol was one of the first organic antiseptics and was used extensively by ...

Jonesborough is conveniently located just off Interstate 26 in northeastern Tennessee, making it accessible for weekend trips ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices ...

From the first experiments in the 19th century to Norman Foster and Renzo Piano's high-tech greenhouses, this architectural style has been a place for continuous experimentation.

The wreck captures a tragic moment in maritime history during the 19th century Australian gold rushes. The 800-ton sailing ship was beginning its journey back to the Netherlands in June 1857 when ...

Municipal elections were far different in the Spanish colonial period. In 1985, the late Glenn Anthony May, a historian of the Philippines, teased the civic ritual from 19th-century archival documents ...