If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College ...

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

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

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 ...

Unlock the secret stories of Indian cities! Learn why 'Pur' means a king's fort, 'Abad' means a settled place, and 'Ganj' is a bustling market.

The planetarium turns 100 this year. What came before the giant domes, with imagery of galaxies, asteroids and meteors ...

There are stories that only existed once, and then there are stories that continue to walk the land even today. The Ramayana ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

Researchers created an interactive map which lets users see how the ancient network crisscrossed the Empire, from Africa and Arabia, across the Mediterranean to Europe. After 46 years, a family ...

There is a large body of maps of the Americas which cannot be explained by known explorations. Mercator’s 1569 World Map shows all of Greenland without ice at its coasts. Finaeus’ 1531 World Map shows ...