Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

122 x 170 cm. Note Several joined sheets from a Japanese topographical map series showing the area around Rabaul on New Britain, Papua New Guinea, and annotated by hand to show locations, types and ...

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

With the rolling global shocks caused by the Trump administration’s dramatic redrawing of US foreign policy this week, it ...

January 2025 was marked by cooler-than-average temperatures across much of the country, making it New Zealand’s coldest January since 2017, according to NIWA National Climate Centre’s Monthly Climate ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

There are three main routes to consider: the Red City Route takes you around the city centre and Camps Bay; the Blue Mini ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Here are the most stunning destinations teeming with marine life that are worth visiting if you love to snorkel - or are looking to give it a try.

A small team of marine biologists at the University of Bristol, in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Regional Research and Innovation Agency of West Papua, Indonesia, has found that wild ...