Unknown artist, “The Kiss of Judas,” c. 1460 (image via HKI Institute/The Fitzwilliam Museum, Image Library) During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an ...

Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...

The remains of a 16th century vessel were found off the coast of England, researchers said. Photo from Wessex Archaeology The remains of a rare 16th-century vessel were unexpectedly unearthed along ...

A historic house on 27 acres of English countryside and gardens has come to the market with a £4.5 million (US$5.9 million) price tag. Hales Place is a Grade II*-listed home—meaning it has been ...

Researchers at Lancaster University have examined the skeletal remains of the 16th-century English warship Mary Rose. The team particularly studied the clavicle bone (collar bone) in the skeletal ...

Conservation work that began 20 years ago on a giant set of 16th-century tapestries is almost complete: 12 down – as the most recently cleaned and repaired panel goes back on the wall at England’s ...

You might think a concert of 16th-century English church music, in Latin — with a few pieces barely tipping into the 17th century — too esoteric to attract much of a crowd. But on international tours ...