The dawn of the age of European exploration in the 16th century was absurdly dangerous ...

It’s 1553, and Sir Hugh Willoughby is leading three ships into uncharted arctic waters to search for the Northeast Passage -- ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 16th-century merchant shipwreck 1.5 miles underwater off the coast of France, the deepest in ...

Here, Victoria Bela examines the possibility that explorers from the East ... After comparing the KWQ with four major European maps of the 16th century, Wang concluded that the KWQ was not a ...

World Explorers’ Day. If the word explorer makes you think, fondly or angrily, about a group of 15th- and 16th-century European seafarers––Vasco da Gama, Juan Ponce de León, Ferdinand ...