And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America. The references were tantalizing, but for those ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three thousand years ago, our ancestors began a long experiment in figuring out how they fit into the world, by inventing a bold new tool: the map. One of the oldest surviving maps is, ironically ...

As it turned out, I got a digital pushpin chart not just to Milano ... she even helped create a publicly accessible map of ...