Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: a ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still ...

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A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

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

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According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

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 ...