A Polish father-son duo have discovered rare 16th and 17th century coins, dating back to the tumultuous period of the Thirty ...

The Mughal empire was founded in the early 16th century by a prince named Babur, a descendant of the steppe empires that had ...

An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world ...

Researchers at Lancaster University have examined the skeletal remains of the 16th-century English warship Mary Rose.

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

In the 16th century, Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas composed the Sibiu Manuscript, detailing advanced concepts of ...

Two maps in the archives in Paris and Istanbul from the early sixteenth century which appear to represent the Islands have a Portuguese connection. But the first recorded sighting of the Falkland ...

An astonishing discovery reveals a 16th-century document containing instructions ... been hypothetical or theoretical, they show that early European engineers were exploring ambitious ideas ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

(Title loose and lightly stained with a marginal loss at lower edge, one or two spots.) binding: Early sixteenth-century brown morocco (160 x 100 mm), probably Venetian, blind tooled arabesque border ...

Jack-o’-lanterns are neither ancient nor Irish. One of the earliest references is an 18th-century account of an eponymous Jack, who tricked the devil one too many times and was condemned to wander the ...