A new global risk map has identified the most dangerous cities and countries for travelers in 2025, ranking locations based ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time. The ...

Christmas has inspired the names of many places worldwide, which European sailors discovered. No other holiday has influenced ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Marks in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size.

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 ...

Self-taught artist Martin Vargic has created the first-ever map of the Internet, creating a magnificent layout of the digital world.