It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...

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 ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way ...

There might be nothing more human than looking at the night sky and trying to understand our place in the universe. Long before our ancestors learned how to write they used the stars to make sense of ...

The map was found at the Ségognole 3 rock shelter in the Fontainebleau sandstones south of Paris. This site has been studied for over 40 years and is well known for artistic engravings of two horses.

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A priceless donation during the COVID-19 pandemic has staff at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library system looking into the past. “This is the oldest known map of Charlotte,” said John ...

The discovery has also revealed star coordinates, meaning Hipparchus was the first to use them for determining the positions of those stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...