As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th-century shipwreck ... in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa ...

Researchers visited the workshop of traditional artist Babulal Marotia to learn more about the pigments used in South Asian ...

AKG/Album Scotland was not alone in falling victim to witchcraft panics in the late 16th century and first half of the 17th century. Witch-hunting plagued Europe, beginning in the 15th century ...

The European Union was six years old and easyJet ... It was the home of the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present day, including a giant bequest of J.M.W. Turner ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

And that then became the custom, with only a handful of popes keeping their baptismal names since, including Marcellus II and Adrian VI, who both served as head of the church in the 16th century.

Here, as in several other South American countries, the reclusive Christians, who have roots in 16th-century Europe and who eschew modernity, are accused of destroying forests as they expand their ...

But the threat of cancer markedly increased when carcinogens such as tobacco (first introduced in Britain in the 16th century ... industrial disease A 14th century European handbook, the Tacuinum ...