These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

Researchers identified the shipwreck as HMS Hind, a British frigate that intercepted American ships in the Atlantic before ...

The abandoned Venetian island of Poveglia — site of a plague pit and former asylum — is about to take on a happier new ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life ...

At the height of the Spanish empire, the Manila galleon turned Acapulco into a hub for the entire world's trade networks.

Carmel Raz, a former professional violinist who's played at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, was always curious about ...

Thanks to the efforts of four local researchers and historians, a new informational sign was installed this month at Atwood ...

Poveglia, an uninhabited island in Venice, Italy, will be transformed into a public lagoon park for the locals.

SALEM — Salem’s tall ship Friendship returned to Derby Wharf on Tuesday after months of repair work in Gloucester.

The replica of a late 18th-century, square-rigged East Indiaman merchant ship left the Gloucester Marine Railways around 9 ...

From Mexico City to Zacatecas, these colonial hotels in Mexico are just begging you to indulge in their opulence.

The marvelous Eise Eisinga Planetarium, the world’s oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world, dating from 1781, ...