Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated ...

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

FROM the work of cartographers who first charted the Philippines in the 16th century to World War II maps used by Japanese or American forces for wartime strategy, Gallery of Prints has remained a ...

Centred Smart Cities,” the UNESCO World Heritage Cities Programme is releasing a new set of case studies on the UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas. Building on last ...

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

It’s been eight years since the last big WWII shooter, and it’s time for the genre to return to its most iconic battles.

LOVE a buffet but fancy something a little more luxury? Well, we’ve found the spot perfect for that with the world’s biggest ...

Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old Australian, is the self-declared “president” of the “Free Republic of Verdis,” located on a patch of land in the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia.

Commonly seen as the founding site of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, Stonewall reminds visitors that the fight for ...