Researchers have identified a shipwreck off Porkkala, in southern Finland, as the Swedish warship “Falken,” a 17th-century vessel… ...

Volunteers cleaning Poland’s Krzna River uncover well-preserved 6-pound 17th-century cannonball, sparking intrigue about its origins, Lublin officials said.

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early modern England.

Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

First thought to belong to an English lady-in-waiting, the lavish silk clothing from a 17th-century Dutch vessel is just one of many mysteries surrounding the last voyage of the Palmwood Wreck.