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 ...

As Donald Trump readies an aggressive tariff policy, Newsweek has created a map showing the U.S.'s biggest trading partners.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The standard world map doesn’t include the territories of Indigenous tribes. This mapping project aims to change that.

This essay invites you to consider a helpful way to classify the things in the world, called the “1 + 4 + 1” map. Let’s begin by separating what exists from what does not. Although this can ...

The world's oldest known map, which has been missing for years but has not been missed, was relocated yesterday in the basement of the Center for International Affairs by a Harvard sophomore.

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

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 ...