Hartford artist Peter Sparre has felt the “vibrations of a bygone world” since his first trip on a transatlantic liner in 1946. Sparre, then 4, was headed to Europe with his family on the ...
The pictures were discovered in a suitcase which was donated to Trinity House in Leith Hundreds of old drawings of ships which visited Scotland in the inter-war years are going on display at an ...
Hundreds of old drawings of ships which visited Scotland in the inter-war years are going on display at an Edinburgh museum. An old suitcase containing 15 sketchbooks was handed in to Trinity House in ...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a Byzantine-period church in the northern Negev desert with wall art displaying ships. The surprise findings were announced in a ...
One of the ship illustrations is a simple line drawing, with a slightly pointed bow and discernable oars on both sides, similar to some etched ship designs left by pilgrims in Jerusalem’s Holy ...
In the northern Negev desert, with no shore in sight, new findings reveal how Christian pilgrims arrived in the Holy Land 1,500-years-ago. During an excavation of a Byzantine-era church next to the ...
In 2018, thousands of people from Texas and beyond lined the sidewalks and beaches of the Galveston Seawall, armed with binoculars, telephoto lenses, and telescopes. They came for an unprecedented ...