It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

"The imagination races when thinking about what the Romans may have used it for. Magic, rituals or religion — we perhaps may ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...

This world has witnessed many kings sitting on the most powerful thrones, but one king surpassed them all with his remarkable ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three ...

He ended it with a poem by the 17th century Japanese poet, Mizuta Masahide ... “There is no safe place in this world that is ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy ... to the Allied Forces of World War Two to its isolated shores.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

In the first half of the XIX century, where Botswana now stretches, there were four independent states: Tswana, Ngwato, Kwena and Ngwaketse. The basis of their economy was farming, cattle breeding, ...