The distortions of maps can influence how we see the world. The world as we know it, or at least the way we view it on a map, is wrong. Astoundingly, we’ve been viewing things incorrectly since 1569.
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 ...