Nova Scotia: Did you mean...?

17th-century Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) navigators were the first Europeans to set foot on Australian soil. Although there is a strong theory that the Portuguese explorer...

Colonial American currency was a work in progress from the time of the earliest English settlements of the 1600s until the United States of America minted its own money in 1783. The monetary system was far from standardized...

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean on the northwest corner of the Barents Shelf. It is 800 kilometres (497 mi) north of mainland Norway and sits roughly midway between the top of Norway and the North Pole. It is...

Set on the North African coast, Tunisia is home to some of the finest Roman ruins in the Mediterranean. After the fall of Carthage, Rome transformed the region into the prosperous province of Africa...

When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link...

The Blue Riband of the Atlantic was the unofficial distinction awarded to the passenger liner achieving the highest average speed on a regular transatlantic crossing. Emerging...

Men work on the construction of the Erie Canal in Scotia, New York. While the exact date of this photograph is unknown, the construction of the canal took place between 1817 and 1825. The original Erie Canal was 363...

The Barcid Dynasty rose to prominence during the crisis years of the First and Second Punic Wars, shaping Carthaginian military strategy in the western Mediterranean (c. 275–203 BCE). In the aftermath...

"Americæ descriptio nova", a map of the Americas in 1666 CE. Made by William Trevethen, Philip Chetwind, and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1979 CE). Published by Impensis Philippi Chetwing. From the Rosenwald Collection...

Modern bust of Hannibal Barca in Cartagena, Spain (Carthaginian Qart Hadasht / Roman Carthago Nova).