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UVA doctoral student Musa Kazim Azimli uses spatial storytelling to reconstruct an Ottoman Empire slave market.

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Climate‑driven shifts due to volcanic activity, and the increase in grain trade helped bring the Black Death to Italian ports ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...