An interactive virtual exhibit lets people explore how a 19th century outbreak of bubonic plague affected daily life in Bombay (now Mumbai).

Jenette Kahn, who ran DC Comics and MAD magazine for more than a quarter of a century, is selling her townhouse for $3.25 million — whimsical fireplaces, and all.

In the 19th century, doctors couldn’t use photographs to teach their students about disease. So the physicians, surgeons, and anatomists of the 1800s built close relationships with artists ...

Geology isn’t the only discipline that produced spectacular illustrations in the 1800s, and the Iguanodon isn’t the only extinct animal we’ve reconstructed differently throughout time.

Building a big new house would have been easier and cheaper. But saving the 19th-century structure resulted in something better.

A SNAPSHOT OF BRITAIN’S SLUMS Fascinating hand-drawn illustrations show the poverty-stricken docks of 19th century London featured in Tom Hardy’s Taboo ...

The result — scherenschnitte, or scissors cutting in German — enlivens the pages of Ripple’s book, “The Raub Family Country Doctors and Their Medical Flora Remedies in the 19th Century.’’ ...

These plates come from an 1833 book by French dermatologist Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert with a classically unwieldy 19 th -century title: Clinic of the Saint Louis Hospital, or, Complete Treatise of ...

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into ...

Fire engulfed the town hall of Paris' 12th district early Monday, causing no casualties but severely damaging the bell tower of the 19th century building.

A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct European medicinal leeches were famous for their popular purpose: treatment for everything from cancer to mental illness.