This stone tomb on Portland, with a Jolly Roger-style skull and crossbones on the end, is rumoured to be a pirate's grave ...

It started with a Dutch engineer's plot to convince workers to complete a levee project, protecting a key entrance into Rome ...

the niches in St. Peter’s—designed by Bernini in the 17th century—have preserved three other major relics: a piece of the “True Cross,” a fragment of the “Holy Lance,” and the skull ...

Art, in its essence, is an exploration of human emotions, experiences, and ideas. Caravaggio's Magdalene in Ecstasy offers a ...

A Dutch mercenary spy arrives in Malaya in the 17th century to gather information for a plan to seize a secret gold mine hidden in Kampung Ketayap.

A partnership between the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Italian Embassy in India has brought "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" ...

The country’s elusive identity resides not in a National Trust garden, but on the thundering dual carriageway of the A1.

Omaze has announced a stunning £5million country house in the Cotswolds as its latest house draw offering with one lucky winner to be announced.

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

We've compiled a list of 21 lesser-known cities, towns, villages and other unique tourist spots in God's Own Country that ...

A wall made of human bones was just discovered underneath a cathedral in Belgium. Experts estimate that the macabre structure ...

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...