Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.

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The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

The distortions of maps can influence how we see the world. The world as we know it, or at least the way we view it on a map, is wrong. Astoundingly, we’ve been viewing things incorrectly since 1569.

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The American weekly news magazine Newsweek has published a "map of the Third World War", which indicates where a conflict ...

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Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long vowed to end Russia's occupation of Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.