The European colonization of the Americas was one of the most transformative eras in history, reshaping continents, cultures, ...

In the 700s, as Iberia fell to the Moors, Christians fled. Did they find a new home on Antillia, a mythical island in the ...

The history of the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus is rich, diverse, and full of thriving civilizations ...

The next time you're at a thrift store or estate sale, skip the furniture and look for vintage globes. These unexpected ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

In a sunlight-dappled room in UW-Madison’s Science Hall, between historical maps from around the planet, rests a world unlike ...

Madrid’s role as centre of a once vast maritime realm has eternally linked it with the sea in many forms: museums, food, ...

Researchers have found evidence of an Ottoman fortress in the Black Sea city of Odesa that had long proved elusive.

UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles, a girl who can read minds, orbs appearing in the desert sky. These are some of the ontologically shattering concepts covered so far in this ...