Ptolemy's world map, originally described in the year 150, was one of the first to show longitude and latitude. It placed the meridian, or longitudinal center, in the then-unidentified "Fortunate ...

Our global food map, below, is an interactive compilation of these type of recommendations. And they come from the best in the biz. Over several years, we've asked personalities like Padma Lakshmi ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story By . Allie Griffin. Published Sep. 11, 2024, 10:23 p.m. ET.

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

The Allen Institute for AI developed a new tool to map tree cover and renewable energy deployment across the world. It uses satellite imagery and AI to generate high-resolution images of Earth.

See Lark E. Mason & Lark Mason III appraise a Korean map of the world, ca. 1760, in Living History Farms, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines ...

Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show. But less snow falling from the sky isn’t ...

A hiker and outdoorsman, Mr. Thomas as a child yearned for a world where nature ruled supreme. His map represents the “idealistic planet that I wanted,” Mr. Thomas, 34, said.