Lost Works of Mathematician Apollonius Hidden in Ancient Arabic Manuscript, Proof of Intellectual Exchange Apollonius, the ...

But as Louvre president Laurence des Cars has admitted, a visit to the overcrowded museum can also be a “physical ordeal” and some facilities urgently need updating. Last month, President Macron ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo clapped back at President Donald Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to ...

Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

This bronze statue of a little boy peeing (manneken pis translates to "little man pee" in Dutch) embodies the ... original statue dates back to the 17th century, the one on display is actually ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

A proposed new law would release homeowners from the onerous process of listing every object lost in a destroyed home. By Rukmini Callimachi Through jobs, marriages and children, one guy has ...

I’ve decided to invoke the use of the Google Dictionary to best explain this: “Afrikaans: a language of southern Africa, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in ...

The Historic images gallery with centralized access and online searchable database, enables us to bring together the image collections of multiple institutions. You can find historical photos ...

The Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) has released a detailed global map of fine particulate pollution, produced using data from the Dutch satellite instrument SPEXone. The instrument, ...