Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters the sizes (and even shapes) of continents, countries, and bodies of water. As a result, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers found what might be the oldest 3D map in a quartzitic sandstone formation in the Paris Basin.