It started with a Dutch engineer's plot to convince workers to complete a levee project, protecting a key entrance into Rome ...

Swedish archaeologists are studying a rare discovery from a 16th-century shipwreck near Stockholm, hoping it will shed light ...

Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz's nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month.  The ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from ...