For centuries, the name "Tartaria" or "Tartary" appeared on maps as a vast, mysterious region covering parts of Siberia, ...

The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

This 16th-century map is teeming with sea monsters. ... Europe had entered the Age of Discovery and the expansion of printed materials brought fantastical ideas to an audience eager for more.

Reports of cannibalism in the New World date back to Christopher Columbus’s 15th-century voyage, but were secured in cartography by an unmistakable woodcut of a man on a spit in a 1505 report by ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to stroll down a street in 16th century Europe, immersing yourself in all of its flower- and manure-laden aromas, you may soon be in luck.

As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique "cosmology" printed in 1507 that serves as America's ...

Scientists are recreating the smell of 16th-century Europe. News. By Yasemin Saplakoglu published 19 November 2020 History is written, read, told — but rarely ever is it smelled.

Project Hopes to Recreate Smells of 16th Century Europe. Published Nov 17, 2020 at 9:00 AM EST. By Basit Mahmood . ... "The smell of tobacco in the 16th century was a smell that's supposed to be ...

In 1494, two European neighbours signed a treaty at Tordesillas on the Douro river, agreeing to share power over the Atlantic and the Americas along a meridian that would cut the entire world into ...