This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama ...

It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders ... and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum ...

The history of maps can be traced as far back as 5000 years ... And, well, that revolutionized European geographic thinking. Image credits: @earthstuffs Then, during the middle ages, there wasn ...

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 ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an ...

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 ...