Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

Scientists have recreated the face of a 16th-century woman with a brick jammed ... a location used as a bubonic plague quarantine in the late 1500s and 1600s. In 2006, archeological studies ...

In England it was so popular during the late 16th century that the translators of the King James version of the Bible used the term "dulcimer" as the English translation for the Greek "symphonia." ...

It was during this century of expansion that the Inca built Machu Picchu, the famed “lost city” perched on a mountaintop 50 miles from Cusco. In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire ...

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, has died. Karim Al-Hussaini became the Aga Khan at age 20 as a Harvard ...

They introduced laws to enforce, what they believed to be, an appropriate Christian lifestyle: In the 16th century, most people believed in magic and the supernatural. People might have turned to ...