The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

Even if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...

Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and cowrie ... to the prevailing direction of the swell. Statue of Ptolemy. Charts have aided mariners ever since the ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Getty Images Roman cartographer Ptolemy mapped much of Europe in precise detail "Later maps show the islands had disappeared, yet further up the coast at Harlech, the castle which was built to ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

IT is somewhat strange that in the article on Ptolemy in the “Penny Cyclopædia ... it is clear that that work preceded the description of the earth's surface (written, Sir E.

Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially ...

the art and science of representing the Earth on maps, has been central to the understanding and exploration of the world ...