This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand account of a 16th-century Ethiopian monk visiting old Dongola, Sudan.

Leonardo da Vinci, born in 1452, was a polymath whose inventions and art shaped the ... puzzles surrounded by the sights and sounds of 16th-century Italy. If you’re a fan of history, puzzles ...