Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

Online maps connect students with campus resources and services, local businesses, and cultural centers in Sacramento, reflecting the region’s rich diversity.

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

Is it possible to create the "perfect" expression of data on a map?William Rankin doesn't think so. While most mainstream maps that use a ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

The Insane Geography of the French Alps (3 Days Hike): <a href=" -- Subscribe to my Substack! <a href=" -- What if I told you that one of the most developed continents on Earth is home to a primeval ...

In the mid-1700s, Denmark tried to capture its natural world in ink and copper. Artists and scholars spent more than a ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...