According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting continents that have long since disappeared. These maps, coupled with modern ...

Archeologists are hoping that an ancient map, left largely unstudied for 4,000 years, can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a ...

When it comes to mapmaking, humans haven't always stuck to the rules: ancient maps were riddled with inaccuracies, and covered with fantastical beasts and mythic places. Take a look at the history of ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...

Google Earth’s time-travel feature is more than a novelty. It’s powered by a massive collection of scanned maps from archives ...

The walls had unique shapes, suggesting they weren’t part of a larger settlement, researchers said. Fabián Gutiérrez Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia The Mayans set themselves apart as ...

2012 Ancient City of Ping Yao - Location map Clarification / adopted 2012 Ancient City of Ping Yao - Map of the Ancient City of Ping Yao Clarification / adopted 2012 Ancient City of Ping Yao - Map ...