Open a book, pack your imaginary bags, and travel the world in this Read Around the World Middle Grade Book Reading Challenge ...

A world map on your wall ... But as GPS and cell phones take over, is map-reading becoming a lost skill? In January, The Guardian reported that three-quarters of UK adults have trouble reading ...

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 ...

tests 15-year-olds around the world on reading, math and science. Its latest report just came out, comparing the standardized test's 2012 results across 60 countries and four cities. The map up ...

The first time I saw what was claimed to be the ‘real’ world map, I almost didn’t believe it was true. Currently, British schools use and teach the Mercator projection map, made by Flemish ...

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?

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 ...