The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

should be so labeled. The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America. Ringmann didn't have long to live after finishing the ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian map known as the Imago Mundi, holds the title of the oldest known ...

The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate ... this similarity and now you’ll often see Peters’s map labeled “The Gall-Peters Projection.” ...

Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...