He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

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 ...

The work was found in a rock shelter located to the south of Paris, France, that features prehistoric engravings ...

Concerns persist over recent and potential conflicts in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and potential conflagrations ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

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 ...

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 ...