Some of the most popular open-world games feature modern-day settings, often including either real-life countries or cities ...

A few decades ago, it was incredible to imagine a theme park surpassing the size and scope of California’s Disneyland — but Walt Disney World, which opened on this day, Oct. 1, in 1971, did ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

A World War II-era map that allegedly leads to loot stashed by Nazis has sparked a treasure hunt in a small Dutch village. The small village outside Amsterdam has a population of 715.

[The Fra Mauro World Map] points south because 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. It shows the Portuguese discoveries in Africa and questioned the authority of medieval and classical sources.

If the geopolitical divisions of the modern world had existed when Stegosauruses roamed the earth, the world might have looked something like this map by Italian blogger Massimo Pietrobon ...

Modern-day Atlantis wiped off map by huge storm is discovered 700 years after grim past Rungholt, in modern-day Germany, was once a thriving port town that housed people from all over Europe with ...

New maps are also coming to Modern Warfare, in addition to the 16 core launch maps. On release day, you'll be able to check out "four huge environments containing a host of new play spaces." ...

Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry—published March 28 in Current Biology—suggests that many bloodlines around the world ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Robin Murphy, professor at Texas A&M University, about the through line between a science fiction novel and the current state of AI and automation.

Map of the Maya World In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, ... n Itzá in the northern Yucatán to Copán, about 400 miles to the south in modern-day Honduras.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Robin Murphy, professor at Texas A&M University, about the through line between a science fiction novel and the current state of AI and automation.