No doubting the scholarly rigour of this highly visual production, which reflects maps’ many distinctive styles and ...

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

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.

A new study has provided seemingly conclusive evidence that the ancient Britons really were Celts, settling a long-standing ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

The history of cartography traces humanity's relentless quest to understand and depict the world around us. From ancient civilizations sketching rudimentary maps to modern digital cartography, this ...

Upper part of the stele discovered with the monolingual inscription of the Canopus decree. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt In a discovery described as transcendental, an Egyptian ...

Archaeological research that began in 2023 at Torpaqqala, located in Qakh's village of Laleli, remains ongoing, Azernews reports citing the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. During the ...