From GPS navigation systems to images of current events taking place on the other side of the planet, the world in 3D is ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time. The ...

Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions.

British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map of the world. In marveling over this piece, he recalled how one of his ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.