Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably ...

AMHERST — Classrooms in Boston’s public schools will soon be using world maps that show land masses of correct size, supplementing what school officials view as traditional, Eurocentric centuries-old ...

Maps are to open worlds what the buns are to a hamburger: the element that's taken for granted but holds the whole thing ...