Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the "Nossa Senhora do Cabo," and made off with many of the treasures the ship was transporting from India to Portugal ...

Explore period architecture and furnishings as well as the daily lives of citizens from bygone eras with a tour of one of these historical homes.

Three Holy Hierarchs, Russian Icon (18th-19th Century) – Tempera on board depicting Vassily the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. Collected over decades, this thoughtful selection ...

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Barcelona firm Barozzi Veiga created a minimalist space to showcase the museum's diverse collection of decorative objects ...

How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors find out starting Friday.

From uncovering the region’s history to exploring its rivers and heaths, here are the best attractions in England’s smallest ...

Discover 22 nostalgic bedroom items that collectors are clamoring for. Some are worth more than you’d ever expect in 2025.

Archaeologists in the 1980s discovered fine 18th-century Chinese porcelain, the remains of tea crates, and three Chinese gold bars in and around the shipwreck.

The wreck now lies on the floor of a small harbor on the island of Nosy Boraha off the northeast coast of Madagascar, which was a hangout known as Île Sainte-Marie during the "Golden Age of Piracy" in ...

A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of Dubrovnik. Ivan Bukelic was working on a water pipeline in Dubrovnik's old port ...