For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Is it just lines of code, perhaps? How about light moving through cables or tubes? How about an 18th-century-style map of the world? That’s how Martin Vargic sees it.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of an 18th-century Portuguese colonial city hidden beneath the dense vegetation of the Amazon rainforest. The city, previously known only from historical maps ...

Follows the epic and unprecedented telling of the unification and colonisation of Hawaii in the late 18th century.

Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean : a history of enslavement and identity since the 18th century / edited by Olatunji Ojo and Nadine Hunt Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. South Carolina: 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

In Johannesburg-based filmmaker Charlie Vundla’s “Frontier Mistress,” which he describes as a Western set in 18th century South Africa, the story of a Huguenot refugee and her struggle ...

Divers in Norway have discovered the wreck of an 18th-century Dutch merchant ship that has eluded searchers for decades.

Swann Auction Galleries said: "Rarely, if ever, has a piece of an 18th Century map's publication story been preserved or offered for sale." A specialist assessed the map to be about 75% complete.

An enormous 18th century map of London which charts the rebirth of the city after it was rebuilt in the wake of the 1666 Great Fire has emerged for sale.