Explore the animated map that illustrates the growth of Europe's largest cities from 1600 BCE to modern times. Timeline: 0:00 - Intro 0:44 - Ancient era 1:12 - Greco-Roman World 1:59 - Middle Ages 3:5 ...

The historian Barbara Tuchman viewed the map of history as a lattice work of marches of folly. Mark Carney recently warned we ...

“Merzoni” isn’t a neologism that easily trips off the tongue, and it hasn’t fully taken hold in the world of European politics. Yet, for months, a pragmatic alliance between German Chancellor ...

Only 6 countries share the same starting letter “U.” Scattered across different continents and cultures, these six countries ...

Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ...

The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein saga is rippling through Europe. Politicians, diplomats, officials and royals have seen ...

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe survived for thousands of years longer than anywhere else on the continent—and ...