A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...

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Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

French authorities say a fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th district, causing no casualties but severely damaging the ...

Five years almost to the day before Denver police say Elijah Caudill stabbed four strangers on the 16th Street Mall, he stood on a street corner in a small town in western Kentucky, begging for ...

Now, archaeologists working at the construction site of a school complex have discovered 13 “unusual” Gallic burials dating ...