The lesson was this: In the tumultuous social and political world of Tudor England, advancement could come readily to young ...

Two 16th-century cannons unearthed in Arizona may be ... They also found the remains of the expedition's swords, daggers and armor. Despite these weapons, the Spanish were still defeated, and ...

Researchers are beginning to release details about a 16th-century Catholic saint whose body was found miraculously "incorrupt" last year. St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila ...

WARNING: This article contains graphic images. Reader discretion is advised. The well-preserved body of an early modern saint was put on display in Spain on Sunday, months after she was discovered ...

The map dominated for the next five decades, but it took another century for experts to acknowledge some depictions weren’t realistic—and it took until the early 1700s for new maps to exclude ...

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.

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 ...