Researchers are using diary entries, travel notes, religious registers, and other primary historical records to better understand extreme climate shifts in Transylvania during the 16th century.
One of the most famous figures in history to carry such a reputation was a 16th-century German farmer named Peter Stumpp, who was accused of killing and consuming more than a dozen victims ...
The preservation of a strict social hierarchy rests very often on the enforcement of correct modes of address. In America ...
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin is hosting the exhibition ‘From Odesa to Berlin: European Painting from the 16th to the 19th Century’, which features 60 works by European painters from the Museum of ...
Automaton is the Greek word for an object that moves on its own. This technology was used in clock production during the 13th ...
The Christmas tree, symbolizing eternal life, gained popularity in 16th-century Germany, where devoted Christians began bringing decorated trees into their homes. By the mid-19th century ...
So, it’s not unusual that this timepiece crafted in Germany during the Renaissance ... as it represents the height of 16th-century artistic skill and technological innovation,” DIA Director ...
In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...
Even European home waters were named by sailors after their destination. The Irish Sea was the route from England to Ireland; ...
A town with a Budweiser House and a Schafferer Museum, where traditional dishes include brennsuppe and Wurst sausages, where ...