The world's oldest known map, dating back over 3,000 years, has been discovered in the France, offering a rare glimpse into ...
In a recent video posted on YouTube, the museum unveiled one such amazing piece of history—“the oldest map of the world in the world.” Explained by philologist, assyriologist, and curator in ...
Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of ...
Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.
A new global risk map has identified the most dangerous cities and countries for travelers in 2025, ranking locations based on a number of factors.
International migration is more prevalent than ever, with around 281-million people living in countries other than their ...
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 ...
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 ...
The journalist-editor explains how special economic zones, tax havens, and free ports are carving up the planet for the ...