The Equal Earth World Map project has finally given us the most accurate map of Earth ever created. We just have to accept it ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...

The journalist-editor explains how special economic zones, tax havens, and free ports are carving up the planet for the ...

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 ...

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 ...