A document held in Göttingen University's Faculty of Humanities has been revealed as an 18th century forgery. The document ...

The Industrial Revolution, a pivotal chapter in human history, began in the late 18th century in Britain and set the stage for a seismic shift in the way societies functioned. What started as a remark ...

Bouchardon is considered a forerunner of Neoclassicism, the late 18th-century style inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art. He worked as an artist in the court of the French king Louis XV ...

In the late 18th century, Cicci probably forged around 200 documents, all of which were supposed to date from the Middle Ages. In these, he presented his ancestors as bishops and notaries ...