This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

Irvine Welsh talks about gruesome pair, criminals Burke and Hare, in a new Sky History documentary, Britain’s Murder Map - ...

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Kunyu Wanguo Quantu and maritime artefacts prove China explored the world earlier than Eurocentric accounts suggest, scholar ...

Unlike most viral origin stories, this one has documentation. The history of 420 is unusual precisely because the people who ...

There are, apparently, a lot of flags in Bir Tawil. “Bir Tawil […] is often described as the last unclaimed land on Earth.

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, ...

Mount Rushmore may have its home in South Dakota, but it’s also in Shenzhen, China. Here, the four presidents stare out over ...

This video explores the origins of the name Arabia, tracing it back through ancient history and early human settlements. It ...

Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed ...

Before 1812, Oceania did not exist. Before 1507, no map showed America. And one continent got its name 2,000 years before ...

Alon Gildoni and Ron Milo turned a Passover question into an interactive tool that traces the Exodus story across real-world ...