Greek intellectuals in the ancient library of Alexandria made a profound contribution to science and several other ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

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From Skyrim’s tabletop vistas to Elden Ring’s golden parchment, these open-world games turn map reading into immersive art.

But that original catalog is lost to time, and we know of it only thanks to the writings of later scientists such as Ptolemy, who created his own star catalog around 150 A.D. and attributed an ...

Produced in 1507 by explorer, astrologer, and cartographer Johannes Ruysch, The Ruysch Map is one of the first published illustrations of the New World. Ruysch used Claudius Ptolemy’s calculations, ...

The developers of Infinity Nikki have recently launched an interactive map of the realm of Miraland, which can help players track their in-game progress in real-time. Other than the teleportation ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to T ...

Although Ptolemy’s calculations were inaccurate—leading to distortions in distances—he was the first to use mathematics in cartography. Certain aspects of his world map, like his successful ...

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