For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s ...

During the 17th century, Europeans were increasingly exposed to world cultures that existed around them. Travel by sea happened for more than just explorers commissioned by governments, ...

Before Clara’s arrival, the best known image of a rhinoceros in Europe was Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 woodcut of the creature, with armour-like skin and an extra horn.

The novel follows the fortunes of Abbas, a young wood carver in 18th-century Mysore, India, as the sultanate falls to British forces. ... art and plunder in 18th-century India and Europe ...

In the 18th century, however, the workshops set up in the villages and religious missions redirected this ancestral tradition to cater for the European market, which was hungry for luxury items as ...

A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian ...