Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

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Scientists are discovering that the oral microbiome—home to hundreds of species of bacteria and fungi—may help predict ...

Aryāvart’s ancient texts have all ushered us towards the reaches of Dhakṣiṇapatha. They traced the routes that led to the sun ...

A schoolboy with a flare for design has now turned his hand to entrepreneurialism by selling his Kent metro map.

On the lower ground floor of the UCL Institute of Education Building - a brutalist icon – lies the UCL Map Library. This a ...

Today’s debates over immigration and assimilation have their roots in patterns of settlement that go back centuries.

Dr. Ted Goudge, a Shenandoah native and retired Associate Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, has ...

Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

Sri Lanka’s upcountry geography has changed in certain areas due to landslides triggered by cyclone Ditwah, warranting revision of the land-use map series in view of several areas severely, Surveyor ...

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