How JMW Turner helped shape the modern holiday map of Europe Travel was a crucial inspiration for the art of Turner, born 250 years ago – and in turn his paintings inspired the beginnings of tourism ...

It was long thought that modern humans first ventured into Europe about 42,000 years ago, but newly analyzed tools from the Stone Age have upended this idea. Now, evidence suggests that modern ...

While modern viewers might chuckle at historical ... and depiction enough to include it on their maps.” (This European map inspired a playful cartography craze 500 years ago.) ...

For decades, scientists believed that outside of ice ages, most of Europe was covered in dense forests before modern humans arrived. However, new research is revealing that the landscape had much more ...