Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

An intricate system of roads connected the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire, which at its height in the 2nd century CE spanned modern-day Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and England. A collaboration ...

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

For decades, the seabed off the coast of Egypt has been scanned to digitally map the remnants of one of the seven wonders of the world for its resurrection.

The Battle of Ipsus reshaped the empire of Alexander the Great, as rival successors clashed in a fight that ended hopes of ...

Saudi Arabia’s AlUla is preparing to open new chapters in the history of the ancient city of Dadan, the former capital of the ...

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

More than half a million Missouri highway maps rolled off the presses this year, proof that paper maps still have a purpose in the digital era.

Claybody Theatre will present their first ever tour with The Grand Babylon Hotel, Arnold Bennett's rollicking comedy thriller. The company will bring the show to audiences beyond Stoke-on-Trent for ...

A breakthrough discovery at the British Museum has unveiled a fascinating connection between ancient Babylonian maps and biblical history. Researchers have decoded the Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old ...