If you were born in the last 30 years, there’s a good chance you’ve never actually had to rely on a paper map. You might have ...

In 1822 and 1823, around 250 settlers sailed to the make-believe country after ... in 1947—designed a map that instead focused on the world’s water. Centered on Antarctica, the map shows ...

The first great attempt to make mapping realistic came in the second ... which required precisely placing someone’s birth town on a world map. “He invented geography, but it was just because ...

The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that’s considered to be the oldest map of the world, contains depictions ...