Discover the vibrant and diverse cities in Asia. Explore the rich history, traditions, and cuisines of this ancient land of ...

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with ...

An astonishing discovery reveals a 16th-century document containing instructions for space flight, centuries before humanity ventured into space. The Sibiu Manuscript, dating back to 1555 ...

From the expansive Mauryan Empire, which laid the brass tacks for a unified India, to the culturally rich Gupta Empire, maps ...

An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world ...

11 x 5.5 cm. (4.3 x 2.2 in.) An illuminated manuscript of poetry in nasta'liq, Persia or Central Asia, Khurasan or Bukhara, 16th century Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 17 leaves, plus 2 ...

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...

As the first online based economically driven game, this character building MMORPG is set in 16th century Asia around the countries of Joseon(Korea), Japan, China, and Taiwan. Here’s a few ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Dealing with crime within a local community had been simple in the medieval era, as crime was less common than it became in the 16th century. Communities had been so small, by modern comparisons ...

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 ...

However, over the weekend, Ari reminded us just how good of a character she can play with a hilarious 16th-century transformation. Just short of 48 hours ago, Ariana took to TV screens around the ...