Here are some fun map facts for you: one of the oldest surviving maps is the Babylonian Map of The World. Archaeologists date ...

Beyond the usual travel bucket lists lie hidden gems that once shaped the course of civilizations. This guide uncovers 7 ...

We’re not sure if any fake towns appear on the maps below, but here are six of the world's oldest or first of their kind that you can go see today. Imago Mundi – British Museum, London, UK ...

The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. It was a curious little book.

In A History of the World in Twelve Maps, Jerry Brotton examines the construction of a dozen world maps — from ancient history to the satellite images of Google Earth — and how they influenced ...

This map shows you. What was going on around the globe in 4000 BCE? ... As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map.

' Timemap ' combines a world map with a timeline, and by manipulating the timeline you can look back in history to see place names and wars that occurred at the time.

In August 1914, National Geographic magazine published a map of Europe and the Balkan States, subsequently to be the scene of one of the bloodiest conflicts in history—World War I. Editor in ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...