Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water ...

Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates. "Half-forgotten" sunspot drawings by Renaissance ...

Portrait of a Boy was painted by Dutch master Ferdinand Bol in the 17th century, which shows an eight-year-old boy standing in the foreground holding a goblet while resting his other hand on his hip.

The BBC show saw expert Alastair Dickenson left in utter shock as he looked at the 17th Century piece which featured a portrait of Charles I. Alastair said: 'My favourite period of English ...

From art and music to tacos and toilet paper, these digital assets are selling like 17th-century exotic Dutch tulips ... Nyan Cat, a 2011-era GIF of a cat with a pop-tart body, sold for nearly ...

One discovery was a group of rare paper cutouts created onsite during the period in the 17th century that Sutton House was a school for girls. Eight of these have now gone on display at the ...

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists unexpectedly unearthed the remnants of a 17th-century home's foundation while doing excavation work in Virginia. The site, which is located on the grounds of ...

In the 17th century, girls attending a London boarding school learned to make decorative paper cuttings. Several of these ...

The Hispano-Flemish School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 1998 the record ...

“Humility will get you so far. Physicists and mathematicians knew all this, from the 17th century. I mean, Bernoulli didn’t have access to this computer — just ink on parchment!” he told me.

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