In the 7th century Christianity retreated under the advance of Islam. But it remained the chosen religion of the Ethiopian Empire and persisted in pockets in North Africa. In the 15th century ...

His work was rediscovered and reconstructed in the 15th century ... quintessential mediaeval T-and-O Beatus map. This map depicted continents such as Africa, Asia, and Europe, but its focus ...

African slavery was more akin to European serfdom --the condition of most Europeans in the 15th century. In the Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa, for example, slaves could marry, own property and ...

Colonial landmarks are also shown in West Africa ... by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first ...

From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...

The view from above also changed forever how we see the world. Now, after a century of flight, it has brought us to the moon and beyond. The sky is no longer the limit.

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate White House proclamations. But rather than divide up for rival civic holidays, ...

The German Historical Museum has announced it will return a 15th ... arms - on Africa's southwest coast during one of his expeditions. It became so well known it featured on old maps of the ...

African slavery was more akin to European serfdom --the condition of most Europeans in the 15th century. In the Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa, for example, slaves could marry, own property and ...