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The House of the Birds is a large residence in Italica (an archaeological site located in modern-day Santiponce, 9 kilometres (5.5 miles) north of Seville in Spain) endowed with a good quantity of mosaics of high quality. One of them, the...

John Knox House, High Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Allegedly, the house in which Scottish reformer John Knox spent his last years and died.

The House of Theseus in the Paphos Archaeological Park in Cyprus had more than 100 rooms. This house is the largest residential structure on the island and one of the largest in the Mediterranean. It was the residence of the governor of Cyprus...

Part of the six-building complex that is the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, Thailand and built c. 1959 CE. Thompson built a traditional antique wooden Thai-style house using temple doors from junk shop finds and gathered six old teakwood...

This building was found fortuitously in the early 1960s and takes its name from the discovery in its vicinity of some statues that must have come from a Mithraeum (a temple built to honour the god Mithras). The whole house was built around...

Medieval turf house and church in Iceland. The Icelandic turf farmstead has developed from the longhouse, a Northern European tradition. As their name suggests, turf is one of the main materials used for its construction. Timber is used...

This is the drawing or living room at the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, Thailand. The house was built c. 1959 CE from teak that was hundreds of years old and salvaged by Jim Thompson from the ruins of Ayutthaya (c. 1351 - 1757 CE...

One of the ponds filled with white Japanese Koi fish in the gardens of the Jim Thompson House Museum, Bangkok Thailand. The house was constructed c. 1959 CE. This photo was taken in TJuly 2019 CE.

In this article, we look at the lives and deeds of seven notorious women pirates. There is Teuta, the Balkan enemy of ancient Rome; Alwilda, the Scandinavian princess who chose a life of crime on the High Seas; Maria Lindsey, who terrorized...

Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgements of God upon Eli's House, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1780. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.