A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. capital is tiny compared to many of the world’s largest cities, a new report on urbanization around the globe shows.

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

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

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship ...