The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

In the late 18th century, Poland disappeared from the political map of Europe and didn’t return until over a century later. But is the map the territory? Where was Poland when it wasn’t there? Culture ...

The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion that ...

but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection ... Comparing the South American country (8,515,767 sq km) to the entire continent of Europe, which dominates most of the northern hemisphere ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an accurate representation of the state's vastness. A photo shared to Facebook on Oct. 11, 2024, claimed ...

When Arctic traders realized they could make ungodly amounts of money off of their European clients by claiming ... teeth off the coast of Africa in 1848, not many believed that the monster ...

A beautiful European island is home to a capital city that takes just three hours to get to by plane from the UK - but is actually situated below two capitals in Africa. Located on the island of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A series of bomb threats across multiple battleground states and baseless claims of wrongdoing by former ...

It was once a chief producer of sugarcane, a direct result of European colonists introducing ... to commemorate the liberation of the slaves in 1848. From the park, visitors can walk to nearby ...