Hartmann Schedel created “The Nuremberg Chronicle,” an illustrated history of the world going all the way back to biblical times. In an accompanying map, he taught society about the types of ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

2007 Historic Centre of Florence - Map of the World Heritage property Clarification / adopted 2015 Historic Centre of Florence - maps of the inscribed minor boundary modification 2021 Historic Centre ...

Hidden details in a historic map have helped shed light on one of the ... attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. Shortly after their arrival, the colonists faced shortages ...

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Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.