The globe, certainly, I have limited in size. But the map is larger." Various remarks made in passing throughout the book implied that this map was extraordinary. It had been printed on several ...

The top three most hated countries in the world are China, the United States and Russia, according to the World Population ...

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 ...