Near the village of Pień, Poland, archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) recently uncovered the remains of a 17th-century “vampire” child, buried face down with an “anti ...

A Child From 17th-Century Europe Might Have Rewritten the History of Smallpox The deadly scourge goes back for centuries, but how many? Lizzie Wade. March 2017. Get our newsletter!

As a result, it's led people to speculate if the person in the painting is a "time traveller".Portrait of a Boy was painted by Dutch master Ferdinand Bol in the 17th century, which shows an eight ...

PIEN, Poland - 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 ...

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

Excavated in 2004 from a 17th-century privy under Rochester Independent College, the bottle had been forgotten until Crozier’s discovery. “Someone joked it might be a witch bottle,” she says.

On the edge of the Cotswolds in Woodstock beside the famous Blenheim Palace, a newly renovated 17th-century townhouse hotel ...

VENICE - Scaffolding went up in Venice on Tuesday to restore a mural by the elusive street artist Banksy that had appeared on ...

Solving a 17th-Century Crime ... Forensic anthropologists believe he or she is the child of Philip Calvert’s second wife. Chip Clark / NMNH, SI [/] ...

Venice is undergoing a cultural revitalization as scaffolding is erected to restore Banksy's mural, 'Migrant Child.' This ...

Ms Rhodes said the cases showed 17th Century foster mothers had greater powers to challenge authorities than biological mothers. ... The standard payment for one child was 40 shillings a year, ...

Kids at work. The belief that a child deserves a life free from the stress of the workplace came along still later. After all, if Miss Huang had been born in the 19th century, few people would ...