The First 100 Years” is underway at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and will remain open for multiple years.

Adrienne Rooney is Assistant Professor of Visual and Material Culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She is working on a book based on her PhD dissertation, “A Worldbuilding ...

In northeastern Gabon, the community of Massaha used participatory mapping to document ancestral villages, sacred sites and traditional land use inside a rainforest slated for industrial logging.

A 1935 map of Africa offers a rare look at the continent during the height of colonial rule, before modern countries of the ...

Antique maps and other geological archives are at the heart of an increasingly ugly showdown between Belgium’s colonial museum and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For more financial news, visit News24 Business. A US mining company backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and ‌Bill Gates is in a tangle with Belgium's AfricaMuseum over who should ⁠digitise antique maps ...

Everyone calls it ‘Middle East’, whether it's in a book or on television. But no one noticed why this term ‘East or West’ middle. There is a history behind this that is important to know when this ...

Democrat’s ongoing U.S. Semiquincentennial project titled “America 250: Local Connections,” about events and people that shaped the region ...

The Bandung-based Indonesian artist transforms machines and materials into a living ecosystem of extraction and production.

Place names on maps are not fixed truths. They are human decisions, shaped by language, power and, quite often, misunderstanding ...

Summary: New research reveals that the ability of ants to distinguish nestmates from outsiders is a highly flexible, learned ...

Queensland is the midst of the fight of its life, as a cultural campaign intensifies to dismantle the state’s historical ...