The journalist-editor explains how special economic zones, tax havens, and free ports are carving up the planet for the ...

In a recent video posted on YouTube, the museum unveiled one such amazing piece of history—“the oldest map of the world in the world.” Explained by philologist, assyriologist, and curator in ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

A new global risk map has identified the most dangerous cities and countries for travelers in 2025, ranking locations based on a number of factors.

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...