18th century News

New York - A shocking discovery was made in New York City this week as workers came to clean an 18th century cannon that is kept at Central Park. When the Parks Workers began to clean the relic, a cannon ball and gunpowder were found inside.

Mount Vernon - Over the weekend the annual Colonial Market & Fair was held at the Mount Vernon estate in Northern Virginia. Mount Vernon is the home of U.S. first president George Washington.

A previously unknown work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been uncovered in the state of Tyrol in Austria. The Mozart Foundation in Salzburg reported the music was discovered in the western Austrian state tucked inside a late 1700s music music book.

A pair of eighteenth century dildos and their leather-covered carrying case, an extremely rare item, were sold at auction last week for more than $5,300 US.

Authorities in Los Angeles are investigating the theft of a rare 18th century manuscript about Rome's politically powerful Orsini family.