Martin Scorsese has explored many genres across his storied career, but some movies stand out in each, from Goodfellas in ...

Delta is preparing to open a route that will do more than connect two cities, it will redraw the map of how Americans reach a ...

Sudan’s humanitarian collapse has erased a nation from the tourism map, exposed the limits of “peace through tourism,” and ...

Collecting historic maps is my primary obsession. I got started at the University of Arkansas when working on my master's thesis by preparing a series of surface geologic maps of the Keefer Mountain ...

7,000-year-old DNA from Sahara skeletons reveals a mysterious lineage with no connection to any modern populations.

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

More than three millennia ago, one of the world’s oldest city maps was carved into clay — and only recently has it become clear that it matches perfectly with the excavated ruins of the ancient city ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

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The history of cartography traces humanity's relentless quest to understand and depict the world around us. From ancient civilizations sketching rudimentary maps to modern digital cartography, this ...

For almost 300,000 years, humans were African. But whereas our previous human cousins had already made their way into Eurasia, our own species was more than 200,000 years confined to the mother ...

After three days of talks in Addis Ababa, African leaders have agreed on Wednesday to a common climate roadmap ahead of COP30 in Brazil. Their bold vision presents Africa as a “continent of solutions” ...