A rarely seen 400-year-old map that identified Florida as "the Land of Flowers" and put China at the center of the world went on display Tuesday at the Library of Congress. The map created by ...

And yes, one of the remarkable aspects of the world map on display ... Ricci shifted the geographic center of Western global maps, filling in detailed outlines of China and other regions from ...

The United States is a global superpower sustained by hundreds of military sites around the world. By the end ... in the overseas presence map. Similarly, China's militarized artificial islands ...

There, he mounted a copy of Abraham Ortelius’s world map on the wall of the mission room. “This proved to have beguiling visual appeal,” Theodore N. Foss writes in China at the Center ...