When Stanley entered Africa, parts of the map were still labeled “unknown.” What he found would change history — but at what ...

The struggle over sea access in East Africa is usually presented as a quarrel over tariffs, port fees and corridors. In fact, ...

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 ...

Africa is rapidly becoming the new heartland of global jihad, as franchises of ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al Qaeda carve out strongholds across the continent, leaving thousands of people dead in their wake ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

On Dec. 5, 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with white people.

Ukraine talks in Geneva, President Zelensky says: "Putin wants legal recognition to what he has stolen...that's the main problem." ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

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

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...