If you haven't heard of Krampus by now, then you've been missing out. Portrayed in film and TV, the goat-headed beast also ...

The name originated in England, arriving in the US when the first wave of European settlers made landfall in the early 17th ...

Sławomir and Szymon Milewski were searching for a Roman road when they stumbled upon the cache of coins, which is worth more ...

Archaeologists first made the grim discovery in 2022 and have been studying the remains to understand why she and others were ...

With a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her left big toe, the corpse of a young woman found in northern Poland would ...

Towns and villages across the Caribbean bear names that pay homage to Irish immigrants ... back to Irish ancestors who settled there in the 17th century as servants on English-owned plantations.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, even something as simple as a mole could have had you accused of being a witch.

Guy Fawkes Night remains well observed in pockets of Britain. In Ottery St Mary, Devon, locals carry flaming barrels of tar ...

The best place to be comforted is in the Edward Thomas bar, named after the Adlestrop poet, who wrote here. In the winter, ...

Laskaridis (left), chairman of The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, presented two Aristotelian classics, Nicomachean Ethics sand Politics, both printed in the 17th century, to the Chinese Academy ...

A full-sized replica of a 17th century Spanish armed merchant ship has arrived in London. Tower Bridge opened to let the 500-tonne El Galeon Andalucía pass through ahead of its arrival at St ...