Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Learning can be fun; but if you don’t want to take my word for it, I will let today’s list do the talking. Today, we’re ...

Google Maps turns 20 on February 8, marking two decades since its desktop debut in 2005. What started as a simple tool to ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved ... which means we can view whole continents or even people’s back gardens. However you look at the world ...

While history books detail past events that shaped the world, historic maps literally show us how the world as we know it ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the world’s oldest 3D ...

As Google Maps turns 20, it's mapping more countries and rolling out generative AI capabilities to keep dominance as the ...

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Marks in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size.