Battles, revolutions, and inventions typically shape history, but some of the most consequential turning points began with a voyage into the unknown. A ship leaving port, an expedition crossing an ...

When Christopher Columbus departed Spain in 1492, he believed he was searching for a westward route to Asia. Instead, his voyage connected Europe and the Americas in a way that permanently altered ...

A 13-year-old boy walking across a farm field on the outskirts of Berlin has discovered a small bronze coin that experts have now confirmed as the first artifact from ancient Greece ever unearthed in ...

Learn why Iceland is called Iceland, and what inspired a 9th-century Viking to give it that name. Read on for the full story, and find out why the country looks nothing like it suggests Iceland is a ...

A groundbreaking new study has conclusively shown that southwest Britain was a major supplier of tin to Bronze Age civilizations across Europe and as far away as the Eastern Mediterranean. Using ...

Sculpture of Pytheas, the first Greek to reach Britain. Credit: Rvalette /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Pytheas of Massalia, a geographer from the Greek colony of Massalia, the modern-day city of ...

Seeing the North Pole and exploring the surrounding Arctic waters have been the desired goals of many adventurers throughout history. Whether it was to navigate the Northwest Passage, or to simply map ...

Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration and the Battle for Power at the Top of the World. By Kieran Mulvaney. Island Press; 240 pages; $30 and £24 Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search ...

There’s much more to England’s oldest county than Margate, Canterbury Cathedral and white cliffs Christopher is an historian, travel writer and author of the best-selling book series, I Never Knew ...

Northern lights (Aurora borealis) over the Lyngen Fjord in Norway. Although Pytheas’ description of the phenomenon doesn’t survive due to his work being largely fragmentary and surviving in a ...

Throughout human history, the call of the unknown has driven explorers to embark on daring voyages into uncharted waters. These intrepid explorers have braved treacherous seas, and unknown dangers, ...