Some items become worth more money as time passes. That’s because these items still have some demand, but they’re no longer made, resulting in low supply. Furthermore, most people don’t think about ...

A portrait of a kneeling nobleman, Mughal India, circa 1700, Opaque pigments and pencil heightened with gold on paper, the bearded gentleman depicted with his hands placed upon his knees, wearing a ...

Painted in the Kakiemon palette, the shouldered ovoid form with a bulbous and waisted neck, above an everted foot, the sides with moulded scale panels painted with scattered flowerheads between blue ...

1.This 18th century fire alarm that you'd need to hit with a hammer to alert the village of a fire: ...

This “Jesuit ring” was found at the site of Fort St. Joseph, a former French stronghold dating to the 1680s in southwest Michigan. Western Michigan University photo A surprisingly intact ring dating ...

In this day of interstates, airplanes and many other efficient modes of transportation, it is the tale of the early settlers arriving to this region after the end of the American Revolution that still ...

There have been a number of different explanations of the origin of the most famous of the pirates’ flags: the ‘skull and cross bones’, which was first used around the year 1700. In the book Socialism ...

MACKINAW CITY, MI – An artifact found at Colonial Michilimackinac is helping tell the story of the Straits Area in the 1700s. Staff at the 18th-century fort and fur-trading village on the Straits of ...

Casey Samson first stepped into the 18th century before he could walk. Now, with his wife, Abbie, he makes it his life’s work to help others travel to the Revolutionary War era. The Samsons own and ...

Research by the University of Warwick shows how death gave birth to the modern cult of celebrity as the sudden rise in the popularity of obituaries of unusual people in the 1700s provided people with ...