This 16th-century map is teeming with sea monsters. Most are based on a real mammal. At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave ...

The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended.

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more about the evolutionary history of European astronomical thought in the 15th ...

While monarchies reigned in 16th-century Europe, painters and dramatists began portraying the middle-class home with unusual “seriousness and sympathy,” says Richard Helgerson, a professor of ...

The French Navy recently found the deepest-ever shipwreck in French waters, a 16th-century vessel with preserved cargo of faience pitchers from Liguria, Italy.

Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about survival: avoiding bandit-prone roads, timing tides for river crossings, or tracking stars as backup.

Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe to UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center as part of the Cup of Culture ...

His victories in the Seven Years' War and his modernization of the Prussian military set the stage for future European conflicts.We also examine how Prussia's rise was closely tied to the unification ...

Assassin's Creed games set in Japan and 16th century Europe reportedly being revealed this weekend Plus a China-set mobile instalment.

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World: Mariners and commodities as a map of history ...