A decade ago, an employee stole 25 priceless documents from the Netherlands’ National Archives in the Hague. The trove ...

Arthur Brand, nicknamed the "Indiana Jones of the Art World," said the latest discovery was among his most significant.

A Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several ...

A Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several ...

Arthur Brand worked with police to return the items to the Netherlands’ National Archives after they were found in an attic ...

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, known for recovering stolen masterpieces by artists ranging from Picasso to Van Gogh, has ...

One of the remarkable and unexpected results of specie resumption is the recent opening of an agency of this historic company in New-York, or what is in effect the transference of a considerable ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the English.

Fast forward to 2024 … Bitcoin is king, the most valuable cryptocurrency to ever exist. But it’s a monarch locked in its own ...

Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC, known in English as the Dutch East India Company. The VOC dominated the spice trade ...

The Dutch East India Company, or the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), was founded in 1602. As one of the first joint-stock corporations in the world, the VOC enabled Dutch citizens to ...

Backed by the Dutch Republic, the Dutch East India Company made its ownership available to the public to fund business and military ventures.