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, ...

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Discover Gio Ponti’s architectural journey in Milan, from neoclassical buildings to modern masterpieces, and his legacy today.

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A historic 18th-century castle is on the market in Spain for $4.6 million. Cardenal Castle was originally built to protect ...

While studying 18th-century maps, Bengtsson noticed a strange rectangle — and brought himself to the site. A surveyor marked the location as "Klosterkullen," or "monastery hill," on a 1760 map.

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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