Reason is our map-reading skill, but because we are busy people and studying ... I am still hanging on to my ancient Christian maps, although the world I encounter every day is far more complicated ...

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by ...

The world map you are probably familiar with is called the Mercator projection (below), which was developed all the way back in 1569 and greatly distorts the relative areas of land … ...

It was a map of the world – a “mappa mundi” in Latin – but it was unlike any I had encountered before. Framed in gold and 2.4 metres in diameter, the world pictured here was a combination ...

It comes as research found that just over half of Brits reckon they could find their way using a paper map if they got lost Have you got what it takes to complete the OS Map Reading challenge?