Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

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Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

People have been recording local climates for centuries, chronicling hot and cold periods as well as resulting floods, famines, and fatal diseases. Now, researchers have examined a wealth of historic ...

The Capitoline Museums in Rome have just today opened an exhibition exploring the history of The Farnese in sixteenth-century Rome. The show draws together one hundred and forty masterpieces including ...

The acclaimed Ukrainian author and essayist talks about his experience as a Soviet-born, Russian-speaking novelist, the ...

Researchers think the site in the Netherlands may have been used for pagan worship in reaction to the spread of Christianity.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and ...

The Hill of Crosses in Lithuania is an incredible place where over 100,000 crosses cover an old fort hill. This site is 7.5 miles from a nearby town called Siauliai. It's believed that people began ...