The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

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

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 ...

Google Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America – once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names ...