For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

Tim Marshall's 2025 edition of Prisoners of Geography refreshes his realist geopolitical doctrine with post-COVID, AI-era, ...

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32.

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of ...

The book's timeline begins in 233,000 BCE, the date of some of the oldest human fossils found in Ethiopia, and ends with civilization’s expansion out of Africa in 90,000 BCE.