While sleep is a universal human experience, the way we do so has varied greatly across cultures, social classes and even ...

Our Lady of the Rosary of Guápulo is a devotional image venerated in the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, and was promoted by a ...

Brueghel's famous 17th-century painting "Woman Carrying the Embers" vanished from a Polish museum in 1974. Fifty years later, ...

People repurposed it in their own day—as ... how the Bard’s poetry was circulated and received during the mid-17th century. The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 ...

Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English generally viewed the trading of human lives with a certain degree of contempt. By 1640, however, with the growth of sugar plantations in ...

The central hall of Raffaele Fabrizio’s 17th-century palazzo in Valmorea ... On the street, barren of the few thousand people who live here, a black cat creeps from under a bright yellow ...

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.

Scholars expressed amazement at the discovery of three letters written in the hand of Julia Otaa, a Korean woman who rose to high rank in 17th century Japan only to earn the moniker of ...