The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Hotter air holds more moisture, which means that rainfall can be heavier, or increased evaporation can exacerbate droughts.

The Imago Mundi, the world's oldest map, has been re-examined by scientists who now claim it shows the exact location of Noah ...

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The ‘exceptional’ 13,000-year-old miniature likely helped Paleolithic humans understand their landscape.

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

Restored to power, President Trump claimed that God put him there and asserted the right to single-handedly redraw the world ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

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 ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the cave floor. Credit: Pascal Crapet, Fontainebleau / courtesy of Médard Thiry for labrujulaverde.com French scientists have identified a unique engraving in the ...

A map detailing the most popular careers in each country and worldwide has been revealed online, and the top job has ...