The bird, which breeds across northern Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, has been named “Sonbarsa” after the nearby ...

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 ...

Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

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

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop wargame offer insight?

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China is remaking Asia’s security map, but not in the way it intends. From water cannon confrontations in the South China Sea ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people across the region and displaced millions in South and ...

Landslides and flooding across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand have killed more than 1,200 people in the past week, and 800 ...