The burst water pipe is the latest in a string of setbacks for Louvre managers that have affected the museum's daily ...

James’ find features Chinese characters, but they aren’t a fluke. At that time, Japanese monetary design was largely ...

A catalogue of incidents at the world's most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny.

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.

Thousands of threatening letters from the likes of Captain Rock, Killman and Slasher were sent directly to victims or posted ...

In 18th- and 19th-century Ireland, it was common for courting couples to exchange gifts to mark their developing relationships. Many of these items are familiar gifts today: books, cards, items of ...

Experience 19th century justice at the Historic Washington State Park's "Trial by Jury" drama series, which includes a meal ...

A bitter election. Social unrest and violence at home and abroad that seem to augur ruinous times. A gaping political divide fed in part by new technology and ways to communicate. Sound familiar?

As far back as 1867, White House officials have viewed Greenland, and Iceland, as having immense strategic value ...

This Pennsylvania pretzel bakeshop dates back to the 19th century, quietly serving hand-twisted pretzels that locals cherish ...

The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...