A recent study has shed light on a unique group of people outside Africa who possess virtually no Denisovan DNA. This finding ...

The digital Itiner-e atlas is revolutionizing how we see the ancient world. In it, researchers have mapped the entirety of ...

Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles ...

The study, published recently in Nature Sustainability, offers a new way to pinpoint vulnerable farming regions and guide adaptation strategies. It also identifies a key threshold—when roughly a third ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

African advocacy organizations have initiated a paradigm shift by initiating a resulting campaign to replace the twisted Mercator map that distorts the African continent by 14 times to be replaced by ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...