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 ...

This video explains the difference between exonyms and endonyms—why countries of the world are called different names ...

Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is "perhaps the most significant artifact of ...

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This video analyzes an 1866 map of Africa, revealing the continent before European colonial borders reshaped it. Instead of ...

For decades after World War II, the narrative of D-Day focused on well-documented German defensive positions along the ...

A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most ...

SCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in theOpen Questions series. What first made you suspect that it was Chinese explorers and not Europeans who launched the true Age of Discovery? The ...

Spanish researchers say they identified 124 shipwrecks dating from the ancient world to WWI in the 29-square-mile Bay of ...

An Old World designer has discussed his dream game - a Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri sequel that "renews the mechanics with what ...

The 2026 Wanderlust Expedition is currently driving from West Africa to North America, a multi-continent journey that would ...

To gaze upon a map of the Philippines is to witness an archipelago of fragmented stories, a jigsaw puzzle of diverse cultures ...