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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of ...

In a talk with Tim Hochstrasser, Stuart Sweeney explored the findings in his book, The Europe Illusion, which considers Britain’s relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe ...

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 ...