A world-renowned Chinese conservator and a Somerville conservation studio completed a complicated restoration of a Chinese ...

A new exhibition, “Mind Over Matter,” invites viewers to pause and connect with the teachings of Zen Buddhism Antonia Mufarech - Correspondent The natural colors of a stoneware tea bowl from Japan and ...

N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As he wrote in one of his ‘coffee poems’: ‘The status of the precious coffee ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts. Known as ...

Ten years ago, a strong storm washed the loot of a 16th-century shipwreck ashore onto Belinho Beach in Portugal, an hour north of Porto. Following a decade’s worth of studies into the ship itself, ...

Many of the first European maps of the Americas included warnings of cannibalism, despite no proof of such activity. James Walker’s “From Alterity to Allegory: Depictions of Cannibalism on Early ...

As the 16th-century religious wars raged around Europe, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck collaborated with printmaker Philip Galle on a series of 22 engravings featuring Old Testament destruction.

Fingers started wagging when 16th-century European women began wearing masks to protect their skin and hide their identities. Masked women on a pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Laeken (now part of the ...

A 16th Century Grade I listed town centre building, most recently used as a restaurant, could be turned into a family home ...

A 16th-century stone cottage set in around 1.75 acres of gardens and woodland has come onto the market at £625,000 on the edge of Miterdale Forest.

A new study of human skeletal remains from the wreck of the 16th-century English warship 'Mary Rose' suggests that whether a person is right- or left-handed may influence how their clavicle bone ...