In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French ...

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The renovation of a 17 th century long-house in England unearthed roughly 100 coins from during the first English Civil War. The ...

“We have realized that a lot of this ship still is preserved. It rests in very shallow water, but despite the fact that people have been salvaging the rig and the guns and so on after the wreckage, a ...

In June of 1699, a 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian departed on a cargo ship for South America’s Suriname with only her 22-year-old daughter Dorothea Maria for company. It was a hundred years ahead of ...

Shipwreck hunters investigating a patch of the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Morocco have uncovered a “heavily armed pirate vessel” from the 17th century which experts call “a precious echo of ...

Would you live in a 17th century windmill converted into a home? Step inside this unique £550,000 property and see how historic architecture has been adapted for modern living.