A team of archaeologists have uncovered what could be the world’s oldest three-dimensional map. The roughly 13,000-year-old ...

While these changes are largely symbolic, they’ve prompted mapmakers and educators to reconsider established labels. Florida ...

The PF were pushed into Sahawari refugee camps whilst Morocco’s ensuing occupation of the region showed a flagrant disregard ...

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of ...

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

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future generations to study. Although different ...

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 ...