American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 1491 map that likely influenced Christopher Columbus's conception of world geography is getting ...

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. Created by Johns Hopkins University astronomers with data mined ...

Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world. Located near the Welsh border on the River Wye, ...