A new museum in a 17th-century canal house brings together fantastical taxidermy and natural history objects in an eclectic ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

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Historic St. Mary's City, a Maryland-based museum and archaeological organization, is opening up a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic Church called the Brick Chapel on Apr. 12.

This helped determine further when the prisoners would have been alive, because pipe-smoking became fairly popular in the early part of the 17th century in Britain, after the year 1620, according ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...