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

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

A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa Farnesina in Rome revealed previously unknown frescoes by the painter Carlo Maratta and two students.Credit...Filippo Monteforte/Agence ...

The re-creation of a 16th century English village, will be displaying authentic era costumes, customs, shows, food and artisans. Guests are encouraged to step back in time as the event will be ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

The maps for the Assassin's Creed games vary ... and divided up into districts all sprinkled with gorgeous 16th century Ottoman Empire. Whether you're climbing tall towers, jumping from rooftop ...

In the 16th century, the town was taken over by the Ottoman Empire. Later, in 1821, it was leased to Egypt, which controlled it for much of the 19th century. But by the 1920s, the newly built ...

Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been ...

We look at ways to improve it. Watch how the maps and images of our planet from above have changed over the last two millennia. Watch what happens when we try to take one of the world's oldest ...