In our new series, Charlotte Mullins explores the visual history of the British Isles in 50 treasures, from Ice Age caves to ...

A Bible from 1525 with an incorrect map changed the way Europe imagined borders and territories for centuries.

Ireland has a distinguished place in the world of cartography, and old maps can instructively freeze-frame a timespan. They are not merely works of art but windows into history, and this overview ...

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The map was based on the information contained within the Geographica, written by the Alexandrian Ptolemy. In it, the great polymath refers to an early system of longitude and latitude as well as a ...

Just below the Mediterranean’s surface, in Alexandria’s harbor, lie the ruins of a mysterious ancient monument. For more than 20 years, French explorer Franck Goddio has been hoping to confirm these ...

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For as long as humans have looked upward, the night sky has been our compass, calendar, and canvas. From farmers sowing seeds by using lunar cycles to sailors steering across oceans by looking at ...

Archaeological research that began in 2023 at Torpaqqala, located in Qakh's village of Laleli, remains ongoing, Azernews reports citing the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. During the ...

Once Upon A Tide: Singapore’s Journey From Settlement To Global City, which opens on May 24, traces Singapore’s growth via the sea and its waterways. The story arc melds a tribute to SG60 with a ...

Not content with trying to rename one body of water, Donald Trump may be planning to rename another. Fresh from unilaterally changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the US president has ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very different ...