History isn’t just written in books — it’s buried in the artifacts we’ve lost. Across centuries, priceless treasures, sacred relics, and scientific wonders have vanished without a trace, swallowed by ...

History is written with great deeds, but sometimes also with small, everyday objects. The latter, once involved in the accomplishment of historic deeds, become historic themselves and are erected as ...

Housing more than 4,000 books, topographical maps, newspaper clippings, postcards, and other archival material, the historical society Montgomery History celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2019 by ...

An umbrella from early 20 th century Japan. A wine glass from Belgium, circa 1825. Three teapots: one from early 20 th century China, one from late 19 th century England and one from late 19 th ...

From a single gold coin's journey through the centuries, to an ingenious screw that changed engineering, the extraordinary stories behind 100 of the most significant and intriguing artefacts in US ...

Using the Mbari architecture of the Owerri-Igbo of eastern Nigeria as a starting point, this article addresses the different forms and meaning the objects take on in different historical periods and ...

Among the seemingly endless variety of machinery that might be listed under the heading automatic control, feedback mechanisms stand out as a distinct group because, although differing widely in ...

The earliest efforts in the field of technical art history focused on the “fine arts”, mainly Western works of art such as paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The “decorative arts” or “applied arts” ...