A study by Dr. Joosje van Bennekom and her colleagues aimed to determine the provenance of the famed silver basin supposedly ...

Alex Clausen is a map dealer ... kingdom before surrendering to Spanish forces in 1492. That would place the map, at latest, in the 15th century and not the 16th. But finding out the exact ...

Now, researchers have uncovered hidden details in a 16th-century map that sheds some light on ... 1590 due to various delays ...

Conservation work on a unique set of 16th-century hand-drawn maps, the earliest surviving representations of the failed Spanish Armada invasion of England in 1588, has revealed that, although ...

The living museum is divided into four areas: the 16th Century Spanish First City, the 17th Century Spanish Fortified Town, the 18th Century Spanish Garrison Town and the 18th Century British Colony.

A 16th-Century Spanish Explorer Claimed This Florida Beach Town. Now It’s a Remote Work Hotspot ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Lori Matthias and her husband had tired of Atlanta traffic when they ...

“Show me,” King Francis I of France protested, “where in Adam’s will the sea was bequeathed to the Spanish and Portuguese ... envisaged “an unending map, forever scrolling up over ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with ...

How economics solves a 500 year old shipwreck mystery : Planet Money Picture the Pacific Ocean of the 16th century. Spanish Galleons sail the wide open seas, carrying precious cargo like silver ...

Centuries before becoming a remote work hub, the St. Augustine area was claimed by the Spanish crown in the early 16th century after explorer Juan Ponce de Leon’s arrival. In modern times ...