Travel back to the early Middle Ages and explore what European cities actually looked like in 700 AD. From street markets to primitive housing, it’s a world apart from today.

Here's a cool map from McKinsey by way of ZeroHedge. It shows the economic center of the world, from 1 AD to the present day. It was a fairly simple process creating it: researchers took each ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat?

What's most striking about this Korean map, designed by a team of royal astronomers led by Kwon Kun, is that north is at top. "It's strange because the first map that looks recognizable to us as a ...