Excavations have revealed that the earliest remains in Miletus date from the second half of the sixteenth century B.

WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

Finally painted over in the sixteenth century, it has left an indelible memory in my consciousness and that of Prague.

WHITEHOUSE: Letter from Prague: Every Day a Miracle

Built for Sultan Selim II in the sixteenth century, it has withstood numerous earthquakes and can accommodate more than five thousand kneeling worshippers.

NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

In the sixteenth century, the wide circulation of English Bible translations and the Book of Common Prayer brought a new degree of standardization.

NEWYORKER: Globish For Beginners

In the sixteenth century, he is a conquistador in the jungles of Central America and she is the queen who sends him there.

NEWYORKER: The Fountain

The Brotherhood, which is nowadays open to all without distinction of sex or origin, was founded in the sixteenth century by African slaves and people of mixed origin.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Even less remembered are the Portuguese pilots who steered Spanish ships along both coasts of the continent in the sixteenth century, probing upriver to Bangor, Maine, and all the way to Oregon.

NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'

The late cardinal of Florence and right-hand man of Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Benelli who crossed swords with Escriva over the years nevertheless once said that what Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was to the sixteenth-century Council of Trent, Escriva was to the Second Vatican Council.

NPR: A Glimpse Inside a Catholic 'Force': Opus Dei

Sir Walter Raleigh had lived there briefly in the late sixteenth century.

NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival

Thony Christie of Renaissance Mathematicus recently turned a Blast from the Past toward a much neglected sixteenth century mathematician whose education reforms helped train the pioneers of the Scientific Revolution.

FORBES: A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution

Sixteenth-century British colonists learned the method, and it eventually spread to the south, the part of the country most associated with barbecue today, around the 19th Century.

BBC: The geography of American barbecue

The immediate ancestors of the modern horn were sixteenth- and seventeenth-century hunting horns, brass hoops (with flared bells) that were played slung over the shoulder, sometimes on horseback.

NPR: Young Tuba Player Gets Nod from Phila. Orchestra

The religious and secular authorities then drink wine from a sixteenth-century silver goblet containing tiny live fish, which has recently become a controversial custom.

UNESCO: Culture

Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Seville, Spain, to circumnavigate the globe in 1519.

FORBES: Magellan Sails Again

Sixteenth-century conquistadors cut a swath through ancient civilizations that had once rivaled those of the Aztec and Inca.

NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'