art historian “We can say that the modern art system began in 17th-century Europe,” Volpi tells The Art Newspaper. “I often tell my students that Rome in the first half of the 17th century ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The ...

Hundreds of miles of cycle routes thread through Lower Silesia’s mountains and forests, ranging from peaceful sojourns to ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

By Humaira Ahad In a madrasa in the 17th-century Shiraz, a group of students gathered in the Khan School, notebooks open, ...

AKG/Album Scotland was not alone in falling victim to witchcraft panics in the late 16th century and first half of the 17th century. Witch-hunting plagued Europe ... This map of the British ...

But for the Irish writer and critic Katie Goh, the messiness of the orange is exactly the point. As her superbly reflective, ...

United Airlines recently launched new direct service connecting Nice, France, and Washington, D.C. The seasonal service ...

The capital of Spain may not be on the coast, but that doesn’t keep it from celebrating its ties to the sea with museums, ...

My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue to be intrigued by physical maps of the ...

as well as lighter blocks that outline the walls of the Stadt Huys (as determined from 17th-century maps). Lesser known is the hallway in 85 Broad, which was built as a continuation of Stone ...

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...