The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent ...

Between around 1530 and 1650 a witch-hunt frenzy gripped the European continent ... accounts that flew off the printing presses of 16th-century Europe are all too clear. Today, the hunt has ...

The 16th-century find was unearthed in a network of ... working methods and his influence on the development of science in ...

In 1502, word came to James of a knight who was cleaning up in the lists, a dazzling young Frenchman touring Europe basically ...

Although they tried to ban the practice in the Americas, the plant made its way to Europe around the late 16th century, and now a new study shows that the continent wasted little time partaking in ...

These actions were crimes in Tudor times. The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s, influencing ...

Heavy rains from Storm Boris have caused widespread flooding across several countries, with the Czech Republic declaring the ...

Kenya feels like Europe in the early 1500s when three forces conspired to change the continent; renaissance, reformation and Industrial Revolution. The exact dates for these events are less ...

expands across much of the Scandinavian Peninsula and is one of the largest countries in the European Union by land mass. Capital city Stockholm was claimed in the 16th century, and border ...

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