Tracing the fascinating journey of Indian-origin words like juggernaut, shampoo, cummerbund, and more that have become part ...

Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a ...

A place for everything and everything in its place applies equally to spontoons and shards. Thanks to a new ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of ...

The Grand Tour changed English interior decorating forever — and that upper-crust spirit of accumulation lives on today ...

As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron ...

Kolkata: The Orphanganj Market in Kidderpore, with its origin dating back to the early 18th century, stands as a significant ...

Rajbaris are a link to Bengal's rich past, of grand mansions, classical fine dining, and allow guests to be pretend zamindars ...

The British School, 18th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 1998 the record price for ...

Canaletto's luminous Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, has sold for a record price of £31.9 million at ...