A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way of seeing the planet had to be learned, and a surprising teacher helped ...

Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is seen in ...

THE most recent volumes which have appeared of this handy encyclopaedia carry the alphabet nearly to the end of the letter H. They are well supplied with finely produced coloured maps, of which the ...

OMMEREN, the Netherlands, Jan 6 (Reuters) - An old map believed to mark the spot where German soldiers hid treasure worth millions of euros during World War Two sparked the imagination of amateur ...