A fire on the Minnesota Renaissance Festival grounds on Thursday evening has left nearly a dozen structures destroyed. Chopper 5 flew over the scene on Thursday and showed multiple buildings that were ...

Staff from the Renaissance Festival and fire officials met Friday morning to assess the extent of the damage left behind by a fire that destroyed multiple commercial buildings on the grounds Thursday ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was designing in Milan. Waste from the toilet rooms in ...

Italian Renaissance frescos of the gods and goddesses of air, water, fire and earth enliven the ceiling and four walls of the Room of the Elements in Florence’s famed Palazzo Vecchio, but without ...