In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big task for his scholars: a map that would depict the entire world. The ...

See where shade appears so you can survive a scorching summer in the city. The sun is liquifying Madrid. Again. June 2025 ...

Delve into one of the most popular and cliché alternate history maps ever imagined. Alternate history has long fascinated ...

Claudius Ptolemy, World Map, 150 AD Al-Sharif al-Idrisi, World Map, 1154 Richard of Haldingham, Mappa-mundi, 1300 The Yu Ji Tu, 1137 Martin Waldseemüller's Universal Cosmography, ...

One of those maps, a portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea he produced more than a decade later in Tsefat — a city located in present day northern Israel — is on view as part of “ The World in Maps ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...

These Satellite Maps Reveal Rampant Fishing by Untracked ‘Dark Vessels’ in the World’s Oceans Using satellite imagery and A.I., a new study finds about 75 percent of industrial fishing is ...