Throughout history, powerful leaders have shaped the world through conquest, often leaving a legacy of both transformation ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to T ...

Follow live updates from the NORAD Santa tracker 2024 as Father Christmas embarks on his traditional whistlestop tour to ...

The distortions of maps can influence how we see the world. The world as we know it, or at least the way we view it on a map, is wrong. Astoundingly, we’ve been viewing things incorrectly since 1569.

Thankfully there is another way you can track him – on the good old internet. Every year, as Santa sets off on his sleigh ...

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 ...

Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Iran are among the most dangerous countries on earth to visit in 2025 ...

In fact, cartography reveals the cultural activities and the vision of the world at these times. Four major ancient maps display the depth of these exchanges: the Ptolemy World Map (150 AD), the ...

This map is oriented with north to the right. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and ...

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 ...

"It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck," oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.