Sure, most smart phones will let you see maps of where you are and where you are going. But what if you want to also study maps of the world, of continents, of countries, in only a way that you can ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

I love maps. My favorite activity on childhood road trips was to study the maps and find interesting cities or other place names and share them with my fellow travelers. I always prefer to be the ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

This video reconstructs Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago when all modern continents were joined together. It explains how plate tectonics shaped the world map and ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Map of global average temperature change projected for 2081-2100 in the Atlas for the End of the World (all screenshots via Atlas for the End of the World) “Health of Waters” map in the Atlas for the ...

Continents seem like a simple concept, but their definition is far more complicated than most people realize. Different ...