The hot weather uncovers the outline of The Great Parterre, an ornate garden designed in 1699.
A pair of six-panel folding screens entitled Waves of Matsushima, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, early 1600s Freer Gallery of Art A pair of six-panel folding screens entitled Waves at Matsushima, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, ...
A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular tourist ...
Preteen and teenage schoolgirls made these tiny paper cuttings in the 17th century. National Trust Images / James Dobson In the 17th century, girls attending a London boarding school learned to make ...
In Northamptonshire, a county 70 miles northwest of London, springtime is both familiar and changed. The quaint English towns are still present, now dotted with the trees that are coming into leaf as ...
It's snarky, constrained and incomprehensibly social! So, like, basically, Twitter for the 1670s. This month, 323 years ago, an English biographer scribbled notes to another scholar -- or rather, he ...
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 ...
Vampire folklore across cultures is filled with various tips on how to keep a recently deceased person from rising from the grave as an undead fiend who preys on the living. Now archaeologists have ...
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