Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

The Supreme Court ruled that Texas can redraw its electoral map to benefit Republicans. Last month a lower court struck down ...