Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting ... While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New ...

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...

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 ...

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

The chessboard of Catherine’s nativity was, of course, Europe in the 16th century, before the map of ... Catherine sat at the ...

A family company specialized in real estate investments in northern Portugal bought a 16th-century ... By the early 20th century, nearly 50 families were living on the (European) first floor.

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

The Detroit Institute of Arts recently acquired a 16th century automation clock, which is the first timepiece made before the ...

If the word explorer makes you think, fondly or angrily, about a group of 15th- and 16th-century European seafarers––Vasco da Gama, Juan Ponce de León, Ferdinand Magellan––you’re ...

TODD MISSION – Beginning October 12th and running on weekends through December 1st, the Texas Renaissance Festival is set to celebrate 15th and 16th century European history with its 50th annual ...

The Future Relics project invites six designers to respond to the Renaissance collection and create future treasures ...

However, over the weekend, Ari reminded us just how good of a character she can play with a hilarious 16th-century transformation. Just short of 48 hours ago, Ariana took to TV screens around the ...