A world-renowned Chinese conservator and a Somerville conservation studio completed a complicated restoration of a Chinese ...

At a depth of 1,500 meters off the southern coast of Hainan, two centuries-old shipwrecks have revealed an unexpected trove.

N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...

Nearly a mile beneath the surface of the Mediterranean, a 16th-century imperial merchant ship has emerged from the dark, its ...

Officials recently unveiled the deepest-recorded shipwreck in French waters, complete with a remarkably well-preserved cargo dating back 500 years. The findings were announced by the French Department ...

Meteorology has never been as precise as it is today—but how can scientists learn about past weather events? In addition to environmental evidence such as ice cores and sediments, historical records ...

Consider the Mediterranean monk seal. The mammal has been prized on the Italian peninsula since ancient times, hunted for its meat, fur, oil, and medicinal properties—so much so that by the 16th ...