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 ...

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

While history books detail past events that shaped the world, historic maps literally show us how the world as we know it ...

Welcome to The World feature where you can navigate around Earth via continents and climate zones. It also highlights the place where Jared Diamond started his quest, Papua New Guinea. See what ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

What’s inside a PNG file? Graphics, sure. But how is that graphic encoded? [Evan Hahn] shows you what goes into a single black pixel inside a 67-byte file. Why so many bytes? Well, that is ...

In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first burger stand in San Bernardino, CA. With the help of Ray Kroc, the brothers took their restaurant across the country over the course of the ...

The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

The Biden administration gave Israel 30 days to increase the flow of aid, warning that aid shipments into Gaza in September had reached an alarmingly low level. By Liam Stack and Aaron Boxerman ...

Many recent open-world games are so expansive that players need to invest over 100 hours just to uncover the entire map. Space-based open-world games take this even further, offering maps so large ...

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Marks in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size.