Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated the Columbian Exchange, a v ...

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

Before the guns fired, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union struck a shocking secret deal to divide Poland and rewrite the map of Europe. Behind closed doors in 1939, diplomacy masked a ruthless plan of ...

At a ceremony held at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, witnessed by the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy Matt Western and senior executives from both sides, ...

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times: a map on the wall, north at the top, south down below. It feels so natural that we ...

It is well known that European royal families tend to marry among each other to either maintain or expand their power-base.

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

In 2022, on the brink of obliteration, Ukrainians had no choice but to shield their homes with their own bodies. Today Ukraine needs a human, not a territorial, victory—measured not in square metres ...

The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous displacement.

The smaller, less visited parts of the United Arab Emirates offer a window into the past of a country whose riches once came ...

China's GDIIST research institute has announced the development and soon release of the BIE-1, an AI supercomputer inspired ...

Over the last 200 years or so, abandoned places in Illinois have undergone a transformation, adopting a more modern character ...