The U.S. began a blockade against Iran's ports in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday after Tehran withdrew from peace talks with ...

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

Pope Leo XIV wants to "turn the world's attention to Africa", according to a senior Vatican official, as he embarks on a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced a promised gift, the “African Ceremonies” collection, that ...

The price of U.S. crude rose to $104.24 a barrel following the blockade announcement and Brent crude oil, the international ...

One night, 10-year-old Sebastián Montilla heard a creature moving over a tree branch on his father’s farm in Pijao, Quindío department, one of Colombia’s renowned coffee-growing regions. As he pointed ...

Pope Leo sets out on a 10-day visit to Africa on April 13. He will visit four countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and ...

Nabih Bulos is the Middle East bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Since 2012, he has covered the aftermath of the “Arab ...

The Assembly of the African Union (AU), at its 39th Ordinary Session, has adopted a landmark decision to correct Africa’s misrepresentation in global cartography, geospatial systems, media, and ...

Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed ...

Not so long ago, tattered old maps of Africa’s most remote mining regions would conjure up images of Allan Quatermain cutting his way deep into the jungle in search of King Solomon’s Mines. Today they ...