Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

There is murder, scandal, betrayal, assassinations and all the things that are associated with the world of [Renaissance ruling families] the Borgias and de’Medici’s and the 16th-century (a ...

A Child From 17th-Century Europe Might Have Rewritten the History of Smallpox The deadly scourge goes back for centuries, but how many?

The devil himself mowed a perfect crop circle in 1678. During the public's heightened fascination in crop circles that took place in the 1980s and '90s, researchers found a fascinating old pamphlet ...

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