A world slipping ever closer toward war awoke on the morning of August 24, 1939 to the shocking news that Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact. Hitler ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This stunning geological map of ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

Social media users have been sharing an image online of a map which claims to show the predicted population of Muslims in Europe in 2050. The map shows a high density of Muslims in Bosnia and ...

The map likely represents an area along the River Odet in western France. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 4,000-year-old stone ...

Three days of voting in the EU's 27 member states have seen far-right parties make gains in several countries in what an expert told Newsweek signaled a rightward shift in the European Parliament. "On ...