While the all-inclusive stay includes French country breakfasts, snacks, house wine and spirits and dinners, it’s worth ...

A rare 16th-century book lives on thanks to hard work by a librarian at Michigan State University. MSU has held the copy of ...

Both maps reveal the great challenge the New World presented to mapmakers ... Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map ...

Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early as the fifth century A.D. but was apparently ... who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its plethora ...

For six decades, A-listers have retreated to Il Pellicano, a glam hideaway a few kilometres around the coast, but this year a ...

An upcoming strategy game by Paradox could well be Europa Universalis 5, and the developer has just shared some fresh details ...

The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan ... Once the baby was welcomed into the world, the tlamatlquiticitl looked to the hygiene ...

Unquestionably, the Vikings were the most audacious and accomplished voyagers of the medieval world ... 16th and 17th centuries—long after the purported mid-15th-century date of the Vinland Map.

A century ago next Sunday, Chicagoans’ necks craned skyward looking for a single-engine Douglas World Cruiser bearing their ...

A seminary on Flores, a Catholic-majority island in Indonesia, ordains so many priests that a lot of them go abroad to serve ...

and dancing under the stars with our favourite people in the world.” The wedding day was hosted at the 16th-century Castello di Rocca Cilento with panoramic views of the sea. Jackson wore a ...