<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, also known as "Imago Mundi," is a significant clay tablet representing the oldest known map of the ancient world. This artefact originates from Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

The classic Mercator Projection has never looked so dull. With no intrepid Arctic explorers to question, Mercator turned to a now-lost 14th-century travelogue titled Inventio Fortunata. This fanciful ...

A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase ...