A 17th-century Italian villa used to host royalty ... several courtyards and views of the countryside. Outside the main house are a private chapel, an ice house, a separate museum and horse ...

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered the remains of a 17th-century child padlocked to his grave to stop him rising from the dead, a discovery that turns the spotlight on beliefs in vampires as ...

Reluctantly, he agreed to tour the property: a 3,500-square-foot apartment on the piano nobile, or second floor, of a 17th-century palazzo. As he walked around the main hall — a “very scruffy ...

Buonromei kept his job as the physician in charge of the slave prison, and, when he died a few years later, the grand duke paid for his tombstone at Livorno’s main church. In the 17th century ...

Apparently executed during a late 17th century restoration of Cupid and Psyche, the forgotten works were in pristine condition and had been hidden for nearly two centuries. “My first feeling was ...

A 17th-century house in the British countryside ... The home’s 16th-century oak doors open onto the main entrance hall that has strippped oak floorboards and a fireplace. Wrought iron furniture ...