This map shows the southern nations are at the highest risk. One of the worst earthquakes recorded in European history took place in Sicily, where a 7.5 magnitude quake and its resulting tsunami ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama ...

Explore the changing European view of the world in the animated history of maps across the centuries. Each map tells a unique story of contemporary knowledge, full of belief and prejudice.

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

But is the map the territory? Where was Poland when ... legal state must have seemed like a hardly paralleled event in history. A contemporary British satirical drawing titled Picture of Europe in ...