Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Scientists have unveiled the largest map of the universe ever created—charting nearly 800,000 galaxies and reaching back 13.5 ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to T ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America. The references were tantalizing, but for those ...

who adds that the Macedonian “redrew the map of the world” by force, where his father had always tried diplomacy first. Crowned king of Macedon in 336 BCE at the age of 20, Alexander spent ...