Tiaras were once worn by high-ranking servicewomen at formal events in three US military branches. Vintage military tiaras ...

The founder of VHS Ventures shares how meaningful objects and Latin American makers shape her home and her way of living ...

Jewellery has always anchored the luxury industry, its value shaped by craft, symbolism and permanence rather than speed. Across the region, attention is now returning to these enduring foundations, ...

History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But before its days of piracy, the ship played a role in the transatlantic slave ...

A 4,000-year-old temple and tombs of 14 ancient Peruvians have been excavated at an ongoing archaeological dig in the Lambayeque area. The temple belongs to the mysterious Moche civilization, while ...

Lucien Hirtz (French, 1864–1928) for Boucheron bow tie brooch exhibited at the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts d.coratifs et industriels modernes, Paris. Platinum, onyx, coral, jade, lapis ...

These two brooches were part of a small hoard discovered along with a gold arm ring in southwestern Jutland, Denmark. Dated to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066), the brooches are decorated with ...

Clare Phillips is the Elizabeth gage Curator of Jewellery at the V&A and the author of the V&A’s ‘Jewels and Jewellery’. Emefa Cole is a jewellery curator at the V&A with a specific focus on the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arriving in Siena in “white moonshine” in 1873, Henry James stood in the horseshoe-shaped piazza, surveyed the ...