An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Kent Paterson is a freelance journalist who covers the southwestern United States, the border region and Mexico. He ...

Science and Splendor," a new exhibition illustrates how the royal court encouraged innovation during the reigns of Louis XIV, ...

Archaeologists Discover 17th-century Frenchwoman’s Gold Dental Work, Looked Torturous to her Teeth A striking discovery of ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

A remnant from the Great Northern War known as the Galärvegen, or 'Galley Road', has finally been found thanks to georadar ...

Taylor Swift is going to be recognized as having the "Tour of the Century" at the 2025 iHeart Radio Music Awards. When the singer wrapped her record-shattering, $2-billion-earning tour in ...

"Remarkable" tax records that offer "an incredible amount of information" about life in the 17th Century have been uploaded online for the first time. The deeds show information about the infamous ...

The 17th-century Mubarak Manzil, a significant Mughal heritage site, was largely demolished in Agra shortly after being listed for protection. Local residents allege collusion between a builder ...

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World ...

With all that said, please enjoy The Independent’s ranking of the 60 greatest actors of 21st-century cinema (so far) ...