When intern Erin Cullen unearthed a skull in a 17th-century cellar ... in Bone” co-curator Douglas Owsley examining and early 18th-century burial in Jamestown, Virginia. Not only does Owsley ...

Having studied the experiences of foster caregivers in the 17th century, University of Cambridge historian Emily Rhodes argues that these struggles have a long history and that England's early ...

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play in the medieval and early modern imagination, and in the otherworldly creatures and entities who appear in mountainous and similarly-liminal landscapes throughout this period. Ian’s research ...

She was a pathbreaker. A contemporary of Shakespeare in the early 17th century, Wroth was England’s first female writer of fiction. The startling thing about seeing this book was that her house ...

Himeji-jo is the finest surviving example of early 17th-century Japanese castle architecture, comprising 83 buildings with highly developed systems of defence and ingenious protection devices dating ...

The 52-year-old has been on the road since 2019 with a remarkable early 17th century work, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, painted by Italian baroque painter, Michelangelo Merisi, more popular as the ...