The term refers to each of the two-volume Bibles printed in Gutenberg’s workshop around 1454. Before that, all existing ...

After more than 10,000 years of use, the ancient cultures and indigenous communities who use plant medicines may hold lessons ...

Then, the first act of revolt in 1524 would light the match that eventually sparked the Peasants’ War. Thomas Müntzer, a Protestant preacher in Allstedt, Germany, in the 1520s, rose to fame and gained ...

Guru Nanak’s establishment of a langar at Kartarpur in the 1520s defied caste divisions, creating a revolutionary tradition ...

Every year between Tisha B’av and Rosh Hashanah, we read the Seven Haftarot of Consolation from Isaiah 40-61. The first ...

All this follows centuries of evoking the psalm in times of pestilence: “Whenever plague struck Protestant societies from the 1520s onward, we can dependably rely on an outpouring of sermons and ...

A pocket-sized book with a black cover printed in the 1520s is so fragile that librarians do not allow it to be displayed in ...

The Wolsey Rooms were originally built for Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief minister, when he owned Hampton Court in the 1520s. The story of the dynasty is told through rare 16th-century artworks ...

Hampton Court Palace, which Henry VIII acquired in the 1520s and subsequently expanded, features the Grand Hall (with Anne Boleyn's coat of arms carved in the ceiling and antique tapestries on the ...

Around 500 years ago, an uprising began in central Germany. Now, the spark for that revolt has just been discovered. Robert Prust State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of Saxony ...