R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

It turns out that your world map, along with every other possible map, can be completely colored using only four different colors. This is not immediately obvious. In fact, ...

If we could all just get along, this map wouldn't look half as good. By David Grossman Published: Dec 28, 2016 3:52 PM EST The world is a lot less stable than the clean, unchanging lines on a ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569 ...

It's more than 200 pages of maps along with Seed's erudite commentary. ... c. 1300 CE, is the largest surviving world map from the middle ages — 64 by 52 inches.

Back in 2021, a 22-year-old from Arkansas named Trevor Rainbolt shuttered himself in his Los Angeles apartment to memorize the world. For months, he spent his time studying Google Street View from ...