Vases found in Guatemala offer rare physical proof of tobacco use among ancient Maya, but with a twist: This time, they didn’t inhale.

Following a 13-year restoration, a 16th-century Turkish bath is reopening in Istanbul’s Zeyrek district this month. Called the Çinili Hamam, the revitalized site won’t offer traditional ...

We chose the Hurrem Sultan Hamami Bath, originally built in the 16th century for the country’s most powerful woman, Roxelana, wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It operated for 450 years ...

Tarsus, Turkey, plays an important part in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As well as its significance for the Abrahamic ...

During the second part of the 16th century, Sahagún compiled a vast compendium ... If there was anything untoward, “she put the pregnant girl in a bath and pressed her belly to turn the baby ...

Taiwan – llha Formosa (“the beautiful island”) to 16th-century Portuguese explorers – has everything you could want from an ...

The 16th-century Kilic Ali Pasa hammam reopened in ... “People are able to feel the centuries-old legacy of this practice during the bathing process. You will see,” she assures me.

Hidden below in the South Wing, head to Fawlsey’s 2AA Rosette Cedar Restaurant, dating back to the early 16th century ... door as you sink into a rolltop bath framed by lavish Jacobean curtains ...

The 16th-century historian John Leland called the Henry VII Lady Chapel ... Since 1725, it has been used for installations of Knights of the Order of the Bath, and the colourful banners of living ...

It includes four bedrooms, three bath/shower rooms, a triple aspect living room ... a three-bedroom Grade II-listed house ...

among the remains of a 16th-century Ottoman bath and over the arches of a bridge that once spanned a river. The mosque is still in use, so visitors must meet Islamic standards of modesty by ...