In 1492, the discovery of the Americas initiated European colonialism, resulting in the continent's dominance over much of the world by the 1920s. This video examines the history of colonization and ...

Lund University archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind ...

A new study uses fossil and archaeological archives to demonstrate that colonial era extinctions in Guadeloupe occurred on a much more massive scale than previously thought, with more than 50% of the ...

The imperialist European nations we define today as the “West” colonized and brutally exploited most of the globe during the protracted period stretching from the 15th century to the 1960s, known as ...