An ethereal, life-size sculpture by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh is an ode to the historic Herkenrode Abbey in Hasselt.

How did a rare 16th-century Renaissance tapestry, currently housed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, come to be the unlikely centerpiece of a fascinating performance running in downtown ...

For many years, historians knew of only ten first-edition copies of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince—the controversial 16th-century political treatise—all held by institutions. However, they recently ...

The unidentified ship is believed to have been built in the late 1500s, which would make it older than Sweden's iconic 17th ...

Ten years ago, a strong storm washed the loot of a 16th-century shipwreck ashore onto Belinho Beach in Portugal, an hour north of Porto. Following a decade’s worth of studies into the ship itself, ...

ZADAR, CROATIA—Total Croatia News reports that bronze trumpets made in the Dutch city of Leiden have been found in the cargo of a sixteenth-century Dutch shipwreck in the Adriatic Sea, near Croatia’s ...

Swedish archaeologists are studying a rare discovery from a 16th-century shipwreck near Stockholm, hoping it will shed light on the history of trade and industry in the Baltic region and Sweden during ...