Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...

Maps, such as the 1502 ... in the early 16th century and mounted in Naples, c. 1640) and exotic animals. Private Collection A zebra taken from Africa to India in 1621 was depicted by an artist ...

Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the ... The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way.

Part of the Earth’s natural cycles of warming and cooling, heatwaves have always affected our planet. However, climate change means that intense and prolonged heat events are now impacting areas ...

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The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca, was built as a fortified colony on the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

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Look past the Spanish fort, ornate Moorish buildings and main plaza to discover Black history in St. Augustine, Florida. More ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

President Donald Trump took credit for creating a new word while talking about lowering drug prices — a word first used in the late 16th century. During a press conference on Monday, Trump ...