An incredible new map captures a stunning snapshot of the Roman Empire's vast transportation system as it was nearly 2,000 ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

To fill the World Map in Where Winds Meets, you need to find Wayfarers. This guide details the location of all of the ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

Humans have been captivated by the mysteries of the Earth and stars for centuries, documenting their explorations in stunning and varied ways. Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy—known as the “inventor ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...