Aquarium of Vulcan

Today (August 23rd) is the date of the festival of Vulcanalia, held in honor of the Roman god of fire and furnace in the ancient Roman w...

Amongst the varied proliferation of paintings by the artist Peter Rodulfo As the Elephant Laughed  is exemplary of stylistic characteri...

The alchemist-physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) is credited as the first to advocate chemical processes in order to obtain new medicines ...

On  Saturday 16th October 1646, purple rain fell upon the city of Brussels. It flowed through the city's rivers and canals to the ...

Among the many unsung treasures in Norwich's three dozen medieval churches there are an extraordinary variety of well-executed an...