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 ...

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

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

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that aren’t well ...

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 digital map of the Earth goes back 750 million years through the extinction of the dinosaurs. Users can enter a city name to see what it looked like several centuries ago. Ian Webster, the ...

@astro_timpeake A copy of one of the oldest maps in Britain, now exploring the newest frontier here in space #mappamundi Perpetual Trust ?– @PerpetualTrust Feb 11 Hereford, Englan @astro_timpeake ...

"Miracles and Myths," 40 historic maps from the collection of Bill Caras, is on display in the Paxson Gallery of the Montana Museum of Art & Culture on the UM campus through April 29. On Tuesday, ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...