The reason that there are no skeletons at the wreck of the Titanic is basically because once the flesh of their bodies was eaten, the remaining bones dissolved.
Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...
In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...
I hope that readers will think about how many of our ideas about freedom, the middle class, art markets, and economic prosperity began in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. As this book demonstrates ...
It has to be 95 degrees.” Another blissful inhaling follows as she serves us the brew in exquisite 18th-century Dutch porcelain. “They say Castleton tastes so good because it’s organic and ...
A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...
Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published in ...
Work to recover an anchor of a ship from the late 13th century Mongolian armada that tried to invade Japan is under way off the coast of Takashima island in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture.
History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...
These shipbuilders are the largest private manufacturing ... Navy's 21st Century fleet, it is imperative that the Navy and Congress ade- 16A Cynthia L. Brown quately budget for ship design early ...