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Both maps reveal the great challenge the New World presented to mapmakers ... Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map ...

Betrayal. Political turmoil. Bitter rivalries. No, we’re not still talking about “Game of Thrones." We’re talking about a subject even more dramatic: maps. Over the centuries, maps have influenced ...

Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early as the fifth century A.D. but was apparently ... who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its plethora ...

A century ago next Sunday, Chicagoans’ necks craned skyward looking for a single-engine Douglas World Cruiser bearing their ...

Unquestionably, the Vikings were the most audacious and accomplished voyagers of the medieval world ... 16th and 17th centuries—long after the purported mid-15th-century date of the Vinland Map.

While the all-inclusive stay includes French country breakfasts, snacks, house wine and spirits and dinners, it’s worth ...

An upcoming strategy game by Paradox could well be Europa Universalis 5, and the developer has just shared some fresh details ...

A rare 16th-century book lives on thanks to hard work by a librarian at Michigan State University. MSU has held the copy of ...

For six decades, A-listers have retreated to Il Pellicano, a glam hideaway a few kilometres around the coast, but this year a ...