Maps are tools to show you where you are going, but they can also show you where you came from. That principle drives the work of Roberto Rodríguez and Patrisia Gonzales, who study ancient maps, oral ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

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After decades of predictions that the world is close to peak oil, it’s pretty clear that isn’t true. Fracking, tar sands, and new offshore wells are all flowing freely. The oil industry continues to ...

Now’s your chance to tour ancient Egypt for much less than the price of a plane ticket. On Wednesday, Google Maps announced its latest accomplishment in its quest to map the entire planet with its ...