Historical accounts differ as to ... Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage ...

I suppose this map explains quite nicely why English is such a big mess. GET BOING BOING AD-FREE The post Generate maps of Europe showing translations of English words appeared first on Boing Boing .

This map shows when exactly pale skinned people made up the biggest proportion of the population in several European countries ... in subsequent eras of ancient history. In Neolithic-era Britain ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...