The word amuk is Indonesian and Malay for rage or to rage. In the late 17th century, colonial powers violently mistranslated the word, the origins of ‘amok’ and ‘running amuck’ in English, as well as ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as “The Great Geometer,” have survived in an Arabic ...

You can see tulips, the iconic flower of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam and Lisse, and during events like the Bollenstreek Bloemencorso in 2025.

According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...

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Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

It was a fence made of horizontal planks built in the 17th century, mainly to protect Dutch settlers against attack from the British. There's a chance to see it on a 3D map from the New Amsterdam ...

A third Dutch national has died after a car overturned at high speed in the German city of Dusseldorf on Saturday. The 53-year-old woman was one of four people in the Dutch-registered BMW when it ...