Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... Algonquian cousins known in the 18th century as the Machapunga.

Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

They couldn’t run schools or build churches. Though the worst of these laws had been reformed by the end of the 18th century and a small Catholic middle class was emerging, they were still ...

The 18th-century vessel was found during an excavation of Ground Zero in July 2010. But details about the boat have perplexed historians until now – just in time for America's 250th anniversary.