In 19th-century Paris, the Paris Morgue became a popular attraction, drawing crowds eager to view unclaimed bodies. This fascination with death, a precursor to modern true crime entertainment ...

Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee ...

Skeletal remains found on different beaches along the South Jersey Shore belong to the captain of a 19th century ship that sank off the coast of Atlantic County, investigators announced this week.

Skeletal remains found on New Jersey beaches decades ago have been identified as those of a 19th-century schooner captain, thanks to the investigative efforts of college students. The ship ...

But valuable lessons lie in a more distant chapter: the rise and eventual breakdown of the Concert of Europe. This early 19th-century security system, devised after the Napoleonic Wars, preserved ...

After the war ended, the fort was returned to the U.S., and as the fur trade declined throughout the 19th century, tourism began to pick up on the island and has thrived since. But it wasn’t ...

A grant from the State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available ...

A notorious 19th century Scottish con artist who went by more than 40 aliases once duped crofters on Skye with a wild promise of a better life, thousands of miles away in a swamp. Annie Gordon ...

History Seekers Civil War Map Leads to Hidden Relics Buried for Over a Century Posted: June 2, 2025 | Last updated: June 2, 2025 We followed an original Civil War map to see what time had hidden ...

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in ...

A previously unknown shipwreck lying in nearly 70 meters of water off the coast of Estonia's largest island, Saaremaa, may be of a British collier which sank in the mid-19th century ... remain just a ...

the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined the world from ...