LIGONIER, PENNSYLVANIA—On November 12, 1758, George Washington, then a colonel in the British army, faced imminent peril. Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had ...

A French archaeological mission led by Dr. Joachim Le Bomin from the University of Lyon and the French Institute of Oriental ...

The 200-year-old message was found inside a glass salt bottle. Eu A team of student archaeologists volunteering in the French town of Eu has made a remarkable discovery: a 200-year-old message, rolled ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Identification on verso (handwritten) ...

Since the devastating fire that broke out at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France on April 15, 2019, an enormous restoration project has been underway. In addition to rebuilding, archaeologists ...

SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE—During recent exercises by the French navy aimed at monitoring the country's underwater resources, a crew detected an abnormally large feature on the seafloor near Saint-Tropez.

When excavations at Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral unearthed a pair of lead coffins hidden beneath the church’s nave in early 2022, archaeologists immediately recognized the sarcophagi’s significance.