Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ... such as California depicted as an island until the late 18th century—many of these antique maps were filled with remarkably ...

Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates ...

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of an 18th-century Portuguese colonial city hidden beneath the dense vegetation of the Amazon rainforest. The city, previously known only from historical maps ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.