A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

The exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André is a retrospective, highlighting the artist's most important works, as well as ...

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Going deeper into the performance, the experience is like time travel, with the 17th-century setting unfolding ... to regions outside major cities in France, the Chinese adaptation co-directed ...

A revisit of tragedy's muse through art... From April 9 to June 1, 2025, Les Beaux-Arts de Paris presents Dear Melpomene, a transhistorical exhibition that examines classical narratives and ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

The right literature, sure, and, of course, the Château de Versailles itself. But here’s the catch. The general public’s ...

A map published by Earth System Science Data shows the dramatic decrease in forest-covered land in the United States since the 17th century. Before European settlement in the early 1600s ...

Delémont (Switzerland) (AFP) – The Moutier-Grandval Bible, an illustrated ninth-century masterpiece considered ... The priceless Bible was produced in Tours in France in around 830-840, before ...

The central hall of Raffaele Fabrizio’s 17th-century palazzo in Valmorea, Italy, a village near Lake Como, features trompe l’oeil windows and a vaulted ceiling with faux coffered panels.

It is the first time 17th-century abatises have been recovered, archaeologists said. The large stakes were found in the castle’s moat, archaeologists said. Wessex Archaeology “Four stakes ...

Dr. Kearns's book is intended as an introduction to the mental climate of seventeenth century France as it evolved under the influence of the new science of Bacon, Galileo, Descartes et al., and ...