Exploring LIDAR: Tech using lasers to reveal the deep history beneath our world’s surface. The Channeled Scablands of the Pacific Northwest hide an astonishing secret. Evidence of a massive flood that ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Researchers built the most complete Roman road map ever made, charting nearly 186,000 miles across Europe, North Africa, and ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

Boundaries have rarely remained constant throughout history. The world is changed by empires, alliances, and political ...

The newest exhibition at the David Rumsey Map Center, explores how maps go beyond traditional terrain, taking visitors to caves, a misguided town in the Alps and even the Moon.

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that changes ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links on ...

Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...