A 3,000-year-old map found at The British Museum could lead us to the real resting place of Noah’s Ark, with clues hidden in ...

Explore the world's 7 oldest and most historically significant maps, from the Ice Age Mammoth Tusk Map to the Byzantine ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Robert Muggah is a principal of SecDev Group and co-founder of the Igarape Institute. Ian Goldin is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding director of the ...

Google has updated Google Maps so that when users zoom out all the way they see a globe. The new update gives users the most accurate view of the Earth Google Maps has ever provided. Before the update ...

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 ...

5,000-year old 'cultic space' discovered in Iraq dates to time of the world's first cities Massive 3,000-year-old Maya site in Mexico depicts the cosmos and the 'order of the universe,' study claims ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

What's the first thing you do when you see a map of the world, asks British author Simon Garfield? "You find where you are on it," he says. And then you think about all the places you might go. Maps ...

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Many of us remember the basic definition of a map from our early geography lessons: A representation of the ground from above ...

But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...