Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

It's no secret that I love maps. I love looking at them, studying them, using them and teaching from them. I love current maps, outdated maps, beautiful maps, historical maps and, well, any kind of ...

To fill the World Map in Where Winds Meets, you need to find Wayfarers. This guide details the location of all of the ...

Amazing World Atlas helps kids discover the world's continents, countries, and capitals through interactive maps, quizzes, and games. It's an appealing app, but the repetitive nature of the games and ...

PARIS – Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away. Those are just two of the nearly ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...

Humans have been captivated by the mysteries of the Earth and stars for centuries, documenting their explorations in stunning and varied ways. Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy—known as the “inventor ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...