An ice sculpture festival was held at Matsumoto Castle Park and other locations in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, ...

The 76th Sapporo Snow Festival, a celebration of snow and ice adding a vibrant touch to winter in Hokkaido, opened Feb. 4 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an “elite” Anglo-Saxon site on land that once belonged to one of England’s most legendary kings ...

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Europe is a continent with an incredibly rich history, and part of that history involves playing host to many spectacular ...

This Gothic castle complex was assembled by the German religious order known as the Teutonic Knights. Lying alongside northern Poland’s River Nogat, this castle is the world’s largest when measured by ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

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Charles Traylen was a delightfully eccentric antiquarian bookseller. But did he really sell pencils to James Joyce?

'Many people have seen the ghostly figure of a woman in a long black dress, standing at the foot of a bed in one of the rooms ...

A 400-year-old painting could finally prove that Anne Boleyn's 'sixth finger' was nothing more than a vicious rumour.