He made more than 5,000 samples while coming up with his famous Jasperware stoneware, each meticulously numbered; the ...

A federal judge says the Trump administration must give migrants sent to an El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their ...

It’s early springtime in Paris and the first, frothy cherry blossoms have escaped their buds, although down by the River ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

In 1991, the remains of a woman were discovered on the early medieval foreshore of the Thames River. The skeletal remains ...

A fascinating, enigmatic Memento Mori or ‘reminder of death’ sold for £1,300 in Tennants Auctioneers’ Fashion, Costume and ...

Musician, educator and historian Robert Ojeda will teach the course, which runs through June and is to non-OLLU students.

After 165 years, journalist Herbert Ingram's pocket watch, lost in the Lady Elgin sinking on Lake Michigan, has returned to ...

A metal detectorist who discovered a gold mourning ring dating from the 18th century is overjoyed after it was declared a ...

The restoration of the Lady Chapel in Saint-Sulpice (Paris) means that visitors can rediscover interior decoration dating from the 18th century. Its dome is the work of an artist at the peak of his ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the grandson of the 10th president John Tyler, died on Sunday at the age of 96. Tyler was the son of ...

Karin Vogel is a direct descendant of an obscure German princess from the 18th century known as Sophia of Hanover. And that puts Vogel in line to inherit the British crown--after 4,972 other people.