The distortions of maps can influence how we see the world. Astoundingly, we’ve been viewing things incorrectly since 1569.

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian ... Inside the bitter river, small circles and rectangles represent different cities and tribes in Mesopotamia including Babylon ...

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 ...

The curator of ‘Epic Maps’ states that their goal is to share “educational and informative” world maps. This hasn’t changed over the years since the account was created in December 2020.

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now ...

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 ...

The connectome could help researchers better understand how to treat diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

This sci-fi Minecraft map took its creators three months to build and saw them transform Minecraft’s blocky, pastoral world into something remarkably different. Deep Space Turtle Chase has ...

Professor Guillaume Blanchet considers why modelling biodiversity is an essential part of protection and how we can model ...

To understand how gay rights vary around the world, Business Insider created a set of maps that visualize which countries have legalized gay marriage and the countries where gay people can still ...

This is one of the Black Ops franchise’s largest maps, and it deserves recognition for the different types of combat ... modes like Domination or the World at War original War, putting that ...