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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported ...
On the edge of the Cotswolds in Woodstock beside the famous Blenheim Palace, a newly renovated 17th-century townhouse hotel ...
A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...
Scaffolding went up in Venice on Tuesday to restore a mural by the elusive street artist Banksy that had appeared on the side ...
Venice is undergoing a cultural revitalization as scaffolding is erected to restore Banksy's mural, 'Migrant Child.' This ...
Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new V&A East Storehouse, where London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ...
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 ...
A late 17th-century child's long coat from the collection of the Stibbert Museum in Florence. CHINA DAILY One artifact — a child's long coat — exemplifies the vibrancy of such cross-cultural ...
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!
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 ...
As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. ... Ariès argued that children didn’t emerge as a focus of unconditional love until the 17th century. Kids ...