The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

Automaton is the Greek word for an object that moves on its own. This technology was used in clock production during the 13th ...

A 16th-century secret passageway built for the ruling ... “The culture created here was the motor for all the courts of modern Europe.” A visit to the revamped corridor, he said, “isn ...

“changed the table manners of Europe.” As manners became more refined, so too did stemware. Glassmakers in 16th-century Venice became well known for the fragility and beauty of their drinking ...

He was excommunicated by the pope and rejected by the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, but he had captured the imagination of many in Catholic Europe. By the mid-16th century, two competing ...

These actions were crimes in Tudor times. The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s, influencing ...