Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have ...

“We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about the endpoints of China and the West,” he adds.

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

The Portuguese were the true kings of the seas in the 15th and 16th centuries. Prince Henry the Navigator sent ships along the West African coast, and Vasco da Gama opened a direct route from ...