Malabo, the island capital of Equatorial Guinea, sits closer to Cameroon than its own mainland, reflecting a complex colonial ...

History will judge leaders in Africa who fail to end the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, President Samia ...

Summit Historical Society director Jordan Bennett said Wednesday, Feb. 5, that the nonprofit has about 1,000 historic maps and has received a grant to begin digitizing the collection, starting ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

How does this technology work, and what exactly are you trying to illustrate or discover with these maps? HAGAN: We are using light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, to try to find the old-growth ...

Historians have discovered a major site dating between the late 1600s and early 1700s. The site was used by the French settlers and the Native Americans in the area. It is believed to have been one of ...

Getty Images Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists ...

Languages: English, Spanish Hidden details in a historic map have helped shed light on one of the great mysteries in American history. The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke that scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for. In 1587, a group of colonists ...

A 100-year-old map has led Brandon to a forgotten home site! Hidden along a creek, this location holds discarded treasures from the past. Watch as he digs up antique bottles and other relics from ...