A pillar may just be a pillar, or it can represent a slice of its surrounding community’s history. Fran Lattanzio and Susan Tingley searched three years for the latter, zigzagging through the Terre ...

Hidden mother photographs, depicting obscured adults supporting children, highlight Victorian culture's focus on nurturing and the mother-child bond.

Becharam Das Dutta, one of the few ‘pat’ artists known by name, was one of the earliest known Kalighat painters to combine ...

Taking a photo has never been easier than it is today. You can swipe up on your cell phone, snap hundreds of pics in only a ...

Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at times been visible further south than usual over Britain, ...

Here are six new volumes that might make your holiday shopping list.

It’s the stuff of New York real estate fairy tales. The owners of the apartment next to yours, the one with the highly ...

When you go to Lauscha, a handsome town in central Germany, you see Christmas. It’s in a very narrow valley, so it has a ...

Cole's majestic vision is only one of the approximately 200 items – including paintings, scientific illustrations, rare books, photographs ... the 19th Century," But at the same time, she ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... of the trade in medicines during this period ensured there was a far less ...

The National Flag Museum, opened by President Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva on November 9, 2010, has since ...

The historic city is known for its cheap beer, affordable accommodation and incredible architecture - and is the perfect ...