As recently as 1,700 years ago, during the time of the mighty Roman Empire, light skin wasn't as commonplace as dark skin, their DNA evidence suggests. MailOnline's new map, based on the results ...

The Chinese Silk Road has long been regarded as a crucial network of ancient trade routes connecting China with Europe, the Middle East, and Africa ... historian cited a map from the Oxford ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

China has become Africa's single largest trading partner. In response, media and policymakers in traditionally dominant states are increasingly using maps drenched in red or stamped with Chinese ...

The magnificent pyramids, the vast and imposing statue known as The Great Sphinx of Giza, and even ancient Roman ruins call Africa their home. These sands feature historical landmarks of many great ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ...