A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Geography Isn’t Sacred in the Playful World of Pictorial Maps. A new book highlights an occasionally twisted, often amusing, always colorful tradition of hand-drawn cartography.

The Wolfsonian–FIU charts global ambition in “ Plotting Power: Maps and the Modern Age, ” on view through April 16, 2023. Drawing from the Wolfsonian’s renowned collection of art and design, Plotting ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...

To understand many of the triumphs, tragedies and conflicts in the world, geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan says to look no further than a map. In his book The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan argues ...

Political Geography and the World Map Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts January 1956 Published on January 1, 1956 . Share & Download . Print Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Save Sign in and ...

Geography’s role in wars and politics shows the world isn’t “flat,” Tim Marshall writes.

Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world, challenging traditional Eurocentric perspectives. Released by the Brazilian Institute of ...

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World Tim Marshall. Scribner, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7862-8 ...