What started with the assassination in Sarajevo quickly turned into a chain reaction that Europe’s leaders could not control.

On Christmas Eve of 1914, soldiers on both sides of the Western Front were exhausted, frozen, and grieving. What began as ...

World War I ended with the armistice on Nov. 11, 1918, which stopped the fighting. The war was officially concluded by the ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

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

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 ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...