Marine expert Edmond O’Byrne's team believes they have discovered the likely remains of the Recovery, an 18th-century that carried valuable cargo before it sank.

Since at least 2013, a rumor has circulated online that illegal gambling dens in 18th-century England hired people to swallow dice in the event of a police raid. In short, there is no credible ...

“Hand-struck, irregularly shaped coins—known as cobs in English and macuquinas in Spanish—served as the primary currency in ...

The Spanish galleon sank in 1708 and was discovered in 2015, but its true identity remained unconfirmed—until now.

An amateur metal detectorist found an 18th-century ring in a field in Norfolk (England) that has links to the British ...

has found a golden ring belonging to 18th century British Prime Minister George Grenville in a field while trying his new metal detector for the first time. Tom Clark came across the historic item ...

The Oxfordshire property—once part of a prime minister’s estate—is set on 17 wooded acres along the River Thames with an 18th ...

new construction archaeological review that unearthed evidence of an 18th-century British fort, known as a redoubt or rampart, believed to be one of seven built by the British in St. Augustine ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

She was everything that 18th- and 19th-century British society thought women shouldn’t be: poor, well-educated, self-made and unmarried (at least until the last few pages). Margery was wildly ...