La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he spotted at a Getty estate sale. His careful eye uncovered a 14th century treasure he purchased for a ...

The rare 14th-century portolan chart is worth $7.5 million. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images. Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of ...

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

The case is one of hundreds in the Medieval Murder Maps database, which uses coroners' rolls to track real cases of unnatural death in 14th-century England—now mapped across cities like London ...

That would place the map, at latest, in the 15th century and not the 16th. But finding out the exact age — and how much the chart was truly worth — took Clausen on a months-long historical ...

The church is thought to have been constructed in the 14th century. Pictured are the remains of a lost church recently discovered in the municipality of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history. By Isabella Kwai A spice merchant stabbed by a fruit seller over a longstanding feud. A street ...

Archaeologists discovered a vast network of 14th-century villages in the Amazon — and they might be arranged like the cosmos. The stars held important meaning to early Native Amazonians and may also ...

While the map in the Bodleian Library dates from the mid-14th century, experts think it was copied from an earlier map, from around 1280, which didn't survive. "Geographically, it fits with the ...

Item 1 of 5 Vessels that contained opium in the 14th century BC, when it was used by Canaanites as an offering for the dead, according to a study by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv ...

That would place the map, at latest, in the 15th century and not the 16th. But finding out the exact age — and how much the chart was truly worth — took Clausen on a months-long historical ...