In a video promoting her new memoir, former First Lady Melania Trump offers a defense of her earlier nude modeling work.

Archaeological excavations at Notre-Dame de Paris have uncovered a burial site that could be that of the French poet Joachim ...

The 191-year-old painting 'The Execution of Lady Jane Grey' shows the last moments of an English Queen. Here's what you ...

New research suggests the sarcophagus' occupant, previously known only as "the horseman," is Joachim du Bellay, a French ...

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune, was known as America's wealthiest woman when she purchased ...

A rare portrait of King Henry V of England painted in the early 16th century shows him in profile. This unusual angle may have served two purposes. One was as a rather outdated emulation of ...

The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Last Dream is not an autobiography, he is quick to tell us. And, he says, he has no desire to write one. His new book, however, is in its own way a kind of self-portrait: it is a ...

Perched on the banks of the River Loire, Gien is known for its faience pottery and its medieval castle at the center of the ...

This is the most visible challenge facing its talented new director, Simone Verde. It has been nine months since he succeeded ...

In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish ...

These include the intricately crafted Greek wreath, the crocodile shield from Panama, and gilded Art Deco panels from a ...