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 ...
The Mughal empire was founded in the early 16th century by a prince named Babur, a descendant of the steppe empires that had ...
News Editor Correspondent Piper Vance dive into NC State’s 1598 copy of “De La Démonomanie Des Sorciers” by Jean Bodin, a ...
A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.
An astonishing discovery reveals a 16th-century document containing instructions for space ... While some aspects of the ...
Across the diaspora, chefs are sharing knowledge about long-overlooked cuisines — and creating some of the most exciting ...
A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...
Reserachers at Western University are finding, preserving and catalouging mediveal manuscript fragments found in early print books.
In the 16th century, Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas composed the Sibiu Manuscript, detailing advanced concepts of ...
Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...
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 ...