Behind every coronation lurked a network of rivals, scheming nobles, jealous heirs, and foreign powers waiting for weakness.

America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Johns Hopkins University Press and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched the world’s first searchable digital map ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Donald Trump’s attempt to nab more Republican congressional seats and keep his party in control of Congress just got a boost ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

The Trump administration is invoking racist tropes in a policy document, claiming that Europe is facing “civilizational ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.