The other, the Yale Center for British Art, with its specialized collection of more than 100,000 works from the 15th ... the 19th century. She hopes to “open up questions about empire, gender ...

Every region, every era, every empire has had its own markers of credibility ... The exhibition ‘Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in the Indo-British Textile’ at the Museum of Art & ...

Our spelling is a Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from centuries of invasions of England, settlements across the British Empire and ... In the 15th century, the printing press helped ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

A 15th-century writer described an entire marzipan ... Perhaps the first Europeans to fall in love with sugar were British and French crusaders who went east to wrest the Holy Land from the ...

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Japanese samurai and soldiers from the Mogul empire guarded the Royal Palace ... the jungle to another important landmark, the 15th-century Santikan mosque, a domed building covered with vegetation.

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

On the walls were maps of ... the Ottoman Empire to thwart German plans (the Ottomans were allied to the Central Powers) to foment rebellion in Muslim lands against their British colonial overlords.