On the 350th anniversary of Shivaji's coronation, an exhibition in the heart of New Delhi brings forward the legacy of the ...

Sławomir and Szymon Milewski were searching for a Roman road when they stumbled upon the cache of coins, which is worth more ...

Foot soldiers learned to use traditional samurai ... By the first few decades of the 17th century, Japan had finally achieved an era of relative peace. The samurai had no armies to fight, but ...

Researchers and volunteers have spent a second year excavating the site, uncovering precious artefacts with historical ...

A historic estate on the banks of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh with a 17th-century castle has been sold. The Belle Isle ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

Two North Korean soldiers have died after drinking large amounts of liquor, as Kim Jong Un’s forces have already suffered significant losses in their short time on the battlefield.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have ...

During the course of the 17th century, Poland and Sweden fought a series of wars, so Zosia could have been an outsider within her community. Europe in the 17th century was also in the grip of what ...

The grave of a Union soldier who died more than 100 years ago ... Eleven days after his 17th birthday in 1863, he enlisted in the Union army in the place of a farmer, who gave him a “bounty ...

Two fallen soldiers have officially been recognised on a World War I memorial in Hobart after having been left off because of a century-old oversight. The Soldiers Memorial Avenue was created in ...

Laskaridis (left), chairman of The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, presented two Aristotelian classics, Nicomachean Ethics sand Politics, both printed in the 17th century, to the Chinese Academy ...