Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century than the information recorded on nautical maps. Coastlines, harbors, rivers ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting ... While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New ...

While sifting through a garbage heap at Prague Castle in the Czech Republic, archaeologists uncovered a vanilla pod that's ...

A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest evidence of vanilla ...