A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the ...

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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 ...

Mummy of Hornedjitef (third century BC). A wooden coffin from Thebes, Egypt ...

The Panama Canal has a complicated history, although we found no evidence of it being under China's control as Trump also ...

An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past. In a study released in the International Journal ...

Payal Kapadia has captivated global attention as the first Indian filmmaker to win Best Director at the 82nd Golden Globe ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

From a total solar eclipse that captivated our continent to record temperatures that scorched the planet, these were the ...

This summer’s paper dated the presence of H. floresiensis back to 700,000 years ago. The team estimated that the individual—an adult—was just 3.28 feet (one meter) tall. The team further suggested ...

This feature first appeared in 2023 on Londonist: Time Machine, our much-praised history newsletter ... though, so a map HAD to be made. I started off plotting all the points on a Google Map.