These cards may have started life in 15th-century Italy as a sophisticated game ... and its production moved to France sometime in the 17th and 18th centuries. There, a new school of artists, thinkers ...

A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of ...

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...