June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

An updated guidemap featuring the new GEO-82 Lounge has arrived at EPCOT. Update EPCOT Guidemap The cover of the map features ...

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

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

For hundreds of years, different cultures and religions around the world have used caves as spaces ... This list was adapted from National Geographic's book Sacred Places of a Lifetime.

Learn how to use maps to understand the world differently with modern mapping techniques, environmental insights, and social ...

The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

Located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana are one of the most impressive-looking archaeological areas in the world ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...