New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

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 ...

The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa’s true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations recently endorsed ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...