From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Most of Bhavani Thekkada’s competitors grew up on skis. She grew up on a coffee farm — in southern India. So as a ...

A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still ...

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

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Eric Sanderson spent the night as remnants of Hurricane Ida arrived over New York City in the same, sorry way as so many others. He waded through the flooded basement of his home on City Island in the ...