The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the oldest continuous English-speaking parish in North America.

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From elaborately furnished bedrooms to views out onto the canals, these are the best of Amsterdam’s boutique hotels for every type of traveller ...

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

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

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 ...