The African Union has called for replacing the venerable Mercator map projection with another one that would show Africa’s ...

Over the past 160 years, numerous projects have been both arrogant and far-fetched in their framework, writes historian David ...

Andrew Ellicott put early America on the map. An adventure into the Okefenokee Swamp to find Ellicott's Mound and the ...

Utrecht University has launched Paleolatitude.org, a tool showing how any place on Earth has moved over the past 320 million ...

It’s not every day that a cache of historic maps of Texas and the Western Hemisphere — appraised at $3.5 million — passes from private to public hands. That’s what happened recently: After years of ...

It is hoped that a rare shark, which washed up in County Sligo, will be preserved and displayed in an Irish museum. The Greenland shark, which can have a lifespan of more than 500 years, the longest ...

Greenland is, kind of infamously, not all that green. Legend has it that the name, along with that of the seemingly equally misnamed Iceland, was a Viking bait-and-switch: you give the nice, ...

There are at least two ways to view the issues that lay behind the upcoming special election on a constitutional amendment that would allow an unusual mid-decade redrawing of congressional lines. The ...

This weekend, my girlfriend had a request for me. She had found a TikTok where a lucky Round Top traveler found a vintage framed poster of Houston's Montrose neighborhood from 1986. Was there any way ...