Zealandia broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana millions of years ago then sank. It's hard to study an underwater landmass, but researchers say they've created a complete map. Studying ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania has revealed shocking information about modern humans in Australia, dramatically rewriting the continent’s history. According to the ...

Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

Almost 2 million years before the first moon landing, someone else took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It was Homo erectus, the longest-surviving human species in history, and ...

I love these fantastic charts from Halcyon Maps that show which skyscrapers or churches or temples or mounds of dirt or other structures that have been the tallest buildings on each continent ...

The history of Africa Day is deeply rooted in the liberation movements that marked the 20th century. The starting point was in 1958, when the Congress of African States was held for the first time, a ...

Although the decade after World War II saw a surge in tensions between the Soviet Union and the West, it was a time of exquisite peace in Europe. Violence had ceased almost entirely on the continent, ...