A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now argue that the engravings form the world’s oldest known three-dimensional map, ...
Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...
World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...
The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...
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 ...