The burial pits were filled with the remains of at least 32 individuals.

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 ...

A new study of human skeletal remains from the wreck of the 16th-century English warship 'Mary Rose' suggests that whether a person is right- or left-handed may influence how their clavicle bone ...

For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the idea of reaching the stars. Ancient civilizations in Babylonia and India, notably, had some sort of space travel narrative. People also have long been ...

A striking 16th‑century Galician manor house in A Pontenova (Lugo) is on the market for €2.1 million – standing out as one of ...

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.

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with blood.

“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 ...