Google Earth’s time-travel feature is more than a novelty. It’s powered by a massive collection of scanned maps from archives ...

Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren't just for navigation.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

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

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