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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The carved surface of an ostrich egg shows what is thought to be the oldest known depiction of the New World on a globe, a U.S. map society says. The globe, dated to ...

An elaborate 2,000-year-old "volcano map" has been discovered carved into a large volcanic rock in Mexico. Experts from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently analyzed ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

These maps flip the script on how we see the world, with their perspective-bending info in a super interesting form.

Archaeologists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery: a stone carving that appears to be an ancient map of the stars. This finding, which dates back thousands of years, provides invaluable ...

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