Different cultures and customs collide in Uzbekistan, a midway point along the Silk Road route for more than two millennia.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A rare 16th-century book lives on thanks to hard work by a librarian at Michigan State University. MSU has held the copy of Ptolemy’s “Geographia” since it was donated to ...

In the early 16th century, Bartholeme de Las Casas became ... He was born in Smirna in Asia Minor in 1626 and he was ordained as a rabbi when he was eighteen. Drawing upon the mystical teachings ...

But this interest in the sagas only took off during the 16th and 17th centuries—long after the purported mid-15th-century date ... while the Bianco Map helped fill in Asia and Africa.

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. Gold! GOLD!

The Doria Atlas dates back to the 16th century. It was commissioned by Giovannie Andrea Doria, a Genoese military general. The 186-page long atlas contains both printed and manuscript maps, as well ..

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 ...

No proper police force existed before the 16th century. It was the responsibility of the victim and local community to find the criminal themselves. It was expected that communities would be ...

Sitting between Asia, Africa and Europe ... The Venetian Fortezza, constructed in the 16th century, towers over the city. Built high and strong to deflect cannon fire, the Fortezza still houses ...

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

The tapestries are hung in their original position, in the Long Gallery of Hardwick Hall A unique set of 16th Century tapestries have gone on display after a 24-year, £1.7 million restoration ...

The 16th-century find was unearthed in a network of underground tunnels beneath the canonical gardens of the town of Frombork, where Copernicus died. The artifact — a two-pronged metal device al ...