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 ...

World map in Ptolemy’s “Geographia” (1460) (courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and ...

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 ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

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 ...

The mystery of ice-free Antarctica has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike, with ancient maps suggesting a time when the continent was free of ice. These maps, such as the Piri Reis map, have ...

"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, ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Tectonic movements shift large sections of the earth - but what does that mean for our planet’s geographic evolution? Brad Spakowitz takes a closer look at what happened over ...