(Esben_H/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Grand Duke Francesco de Medici, a prominent politician in the Tuscany region of Italy ...

A new exhibition, “Mind Over Matter,” invites viewers to pause and connect with the teachings of Zen Buddhism Antonia Mufarech | Correspondent The natural colors of a stoneware tea bowl from Japan and ...

As the 16th-century religious wars raged around Europe, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck collaborated with printmaker Philip Galle on a series of 22 engravings featuring Old Testament destruction.

“Legend of Saint Eustace. Burglary”, by an unknown 16th century German artist, depicts the ransacking of the home of the second-century Roman general and Christian martyr, probably when he was exiled ...

A five-year inter-disciplinary study into the diet and eating habits of Irish communities in the 16th and 17th century aims to bust some myths about the Irish being an inward-looking people while ...

Accounts from the 16th century show how extreme climate events affected communities — and could help us prepare for the future. Our planet offers many sources of information on how past climates ...

Father-and-son duo Sławomir and Szymon Milewski discovered the coins while searching for an ancient road. Polish “Husaria” Treasure Hunters Association While wandering a Polish forest, a ...

As I began reading Joseph Pearce's Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church, published in 2017 and available at EWTN Religious Catalogue, a personal experience returned to ...

A 16th-century painting stolen from an English manor house and later recovered at a bus stop has sold for an astonishing $22.3 million. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” is an early work by the ...