The Malta Tourism Authority has completed a €3.39 million EU co-funded restoration of Marsascala’s St Thomas Tower, as this 17th century coastal fortification reopened its doors as a ...

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water between Spain and Morocco. The wreck is "the first Algiers corsair found in ...

The Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas just unveiled a major Old Master acquisition, a still life by the mysterious ...

I always like those stories where art imitates life. This week's story is one of those. Zlexander Selkirk was a real-life pirate. Back in the day, pirates who were paid by their government to raid ...

When Life Resembles a 17th-Century Dutch Painting In her memoir “Thunderclap,” the British art critic Laura Cumming explores her passion for the virtuosic images of everyday life by painters ...

Archaeology 17th-century pirate 'corsair' shipwreck discovered off Morocco's Barbary Coast News By Tom Metcalfe published August 5, 2024 ...