Sometimes the past holds secrets waiting to be rediscovered. Using a 110-year-old map, we tracked down a hidden cache of ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

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

By the time of World War II, the term “ Axis powers ” had come to refer to the military coalition of Germany, Italy and Japan ...

There are no rules for naming towns. Some are christened, reasonably enough, after their founders or a defining geographical ...