For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political borders.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

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 ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

For the first time ever, researchers have mapped the entirety of the vast Roman road network highlighting its immense influence on European relations and history ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.