The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

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 ...

The goal will be to study the atmosphere and the land below, and NASA has an interesting location to target: what is believed ...

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The MBTA's map is one of the world's best, according to Mark Ovenden, transit and cartography expert. He joins Radio Boston to talk about his forthcoming book "Iconic Transit Maps: The World's Best ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

Scientists assembled the first piece of the map, which includes 208 gigapixels, from 260 observations made between March 25 ...

The Smithsonian Pocket Guide (PDF) is a map-sized visitor guide that folds down to fit in your pocket. It is available at Washington, D.C., area information/welcome desks in English and Spanish. It is ...

Open-world games are beloved for their massive maps. Here are some of the biggest open worlds that gamers can explore in the ...

Taking part in the WoW 20th Anniversary? Here's how to start and complete The Codex of Chromie in World of Warcraft.

Adobe's PDF filetype was introduced to the world in January 1993. It started life as the Camelot Project in 1990, taking influence from 1985's Postscript, one of the best desktop publishing ...

mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.