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A c. 1873 photograph of Christmas trees and gifts in the Dining Room of Osborne House, residence of Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901) on the Isle of Wight. (Royal Collection Trust)

Interior of a reconstructed Bronze Age stilt house. Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany.

Artist's impression of a Haudenosaunee elder speaking before fellow tribespeople, inside of a long house. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

Map depicting the Battle of Guilford Court House (15 March 1781) by Richard Harvey, 2006.

Facade of a house in Pompeii

A belief in an afterlife was central to every major civilization of the ancient world and this encouraged the recognition of the reality of ghosts as the spirits of the departed who, for one...

John Hancock (1737-1793) was a merchant, politician, and Founding Father of the United States, who helped lead the Patriot movement during the American Revolution (1765-1789). He served as president of the Second Continental Congress...

The German Goldsmith's House (Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus) in Hanau, Hesse, is one of the most important historical buildings in Hanau's old town and initially served as the town hall. The construction of the building...

The Dürer House is the only largely originally preserved Renaissance artists' house in Northern Europe. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) lived and worked here from 1509 to 1528. At the same time, it is a unique testimony to...

Lying at the crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean, the island of Cyprus has long been a meeting point for many of the world's great civilizations. Situated where Europe, Asia and Africa meet, its location shaped...