For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

"For centuries, this map has minimised Africa, feeding into a narrative that the continent ... Mercator's projection inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...