The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved ... which means we can view whole continents or even people’s back gardens. However you look at the world ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

We asked our favorite food-loving travelers—chefs, cookbook authors, and travel show hosts—about the best meals they've had, ...

Our brains constantly create internal maps of the world, allowing us to navigate spaces, recall past experiences, ...

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 ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...