A 19th century Edinburgh murderer who killed a widow with a garden spade has been unmasked using special forensic techniques - nearly two centuries after he was hanged. The face of John Howison ...

A well found at the site will be filled and covered over Archaeologists have found evidence of a slaughterhouse and well dating back to the 19th Century at a city centre site in Edinburgh.

A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American ...

The Royal Botanic Garden's collection is considered the world's richest assemblage of rhododendrons, and it has been a major center for study since the late 19th century. After you've visited ...

This trend was augmented by the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the middle class in the 19th century, which enabled young men to select a spouse and pay for a wedding, regardless of ...

Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery began to fall into place. Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

Stretching from the high-on-a-hill Edinburgh Castle to the Palace of ... an old Scots mile which hasn't been used since the 18th century. The oldest remaining building on the Royal Mile is John ...

A vibrant, economic hub, Pointe-a-Pitre features streets dotted with colorful 19th-century buildings as well as busy markets ... World-class dining and a blossoming arts scene have put Dallas on the ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.