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 ...

Explore the changing European view of the world in the animated history of maps across the centuries. Each map tells a unique story of contemporary knowledge, full of belief and prejudice.

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers ... largest assault landings ever undertaken in the course of human history.

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 ...

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 ...