Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

Could a 500-year-old map change everything we know about human history? In this video, we dive into the Piri Reis Map – a ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

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