Imagine traveling without a GPS or the Google Maps app. A new digital project will provide a window into the ways that people traveled the world in early modern times. With a grant from the ...

The “glass delusion” was a regularly recorded condition in early modern Europe, especially between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The book of human evolution has many cryptic chapters. One of these chapters centers around a group of modern humans who coexisted with Neanderthals around 45,000 years ago, as reported by Daily ...

Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...

Scholars often debate the future of the modern system of nation-states, but rarely do they study its origins. This groundbreaking book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious and ...

The earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe has been unearthed in a cave in southern France, showing they lived there at the same time as Neanderthals.

New evidence that bows and arrows were used by early modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago has strengthened the idea that such projectile technology might have given early modern humans an edge ...

Kathy Stuart, associate professor of history, delights in crime and deviance — her research specialty. The University of California, Davis, academic’s enthusiasm for blood, heinous crimes and the ...

THIS is an atlas on new lines, for it deals only with modern Europe, and, except for a few general maps, makes no attempt to illustrate the historical evolution of the British Empire. The size of ...

This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...

Researchers had previously found evidence of early humans in Georgia, at the border of Europe and Asia, that dates to 1.8 million years ago.

The “glass delusion” was a regularly recorded condition in early modern Europe, especially between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.