An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Find out the fascinating, yet often gruesome, history of this empire. The Ottoman principality was ... including male businessmen. In the 16th century, the Jewish Esperanza Malchi gained influence ...

Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge of Višegrad across the Drina River in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina was built at the end of the 16th century by the court ... the most celebrated builders of the ...

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... that seeded both the British Empire and the United States.

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand account of a 16th-century Ethiopian monk visiting old Dongola, Sudan.

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...