While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

A new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art puts 17th-century artist phenom Rachel Ruysch back in the spotlight.

However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an ...

The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

Sweet salads are back — not with irony, but with curiosity. Among them, gelatin salads are having a particular moment. Molly ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

From a beach-fringed, laid back isle to historic city centers with prime dining, the Sunshine State has options to please ...

The word "ninja" may bring to mind a person dressed mostly in black, but what they wore was actually quite different.

To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is ...

The smallpox came in the mail, in a little piece of 350-year-old human skin. And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind.

Believe it or not, lacrosse is the oldest team sport in North America. Dating back to the 17th century, the modern-day game ...