A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders ... and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama ...

This map shows the southern nations are at the highest risk. One of the worst earthquakes recorded in European history took ...

Explore the changing European view of the world in the animated history of maps across the centuries. Each map tells a unique story of contemporary knowledge, full of belief and prejudice.

but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

A map has shown the location of castles across western and central Europe, and one nation seems to be the stand out winner. During the medieval period, the defensive buildings came into their own ...

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 ...

Newsweek's map below illustrates where the protests against Putin's allies are occurring in Europe. Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via email for comment.

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.