An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

It really makes you feel for seafaring pioneers like the Vikings and other historical figures like Ferdinand Magellan and Sir ... Charts were not simple maps of an area, but — much like the ...

The earliest recorded circumnavigators, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake and Thomas ... Such voyagers filled in blank ocean maps with potential ports of call and trading posts to re-provision ...

A map shows where the fatal incident happened ... a Filipino chieftain who defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan in 1521. The government of British Columbia ...

Screening in Cannes Premiere, Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer “Magalhães” is a historical epic about the life and voyages of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The film is a collaboration ...

Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The festival ...

But the Cannes version shifted the focus from the explorer’s wife, Maria Caldera Beatriz Barbosa, to the noted navigator himself, whose full name was Ferdinand Magellan. Lav plans to release his ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research ...