Deep beneath the French countryside, a set of faint engravings on a cave floor is forcing archaeologists to rethink when humans first began to picture their world in three dimensions. Specialists now ...

A Bible from 1525 with an incorrect map changed the way Europe imagined borders and territories for centuries.

What appears on the Ordnance Survey as a blank square kilometre of land is in fact a landscape rich with life, memory and meaning, Doug Specht reveals ...

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

Is it possible to create the “perfect” expression of data on a map? William Rankin doesn’t think so. While most mainstream maps that use a jigsaw-puzzle-like format — solid color shapes separated by ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn't feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they're usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic ...

An exhibition at the Kochi Biennale reveals how the veteran artist Gulammohammed Sheikh maps cities, faith and collective ...

Abstract: In this paper, we discuss our experiences advancing a professional-oriented graduate program in Cartography & GIScience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to account for fundamental ...

The Medieval period, spanning roughly from the 5th to the 15th centuries AD, was a time of profound artistic expression that laid the groundwork for the Renaissance to follow. Despite the challenges ...

The origins of Sussex, England are complex. When the Roman legions departed Britain in AD 410 the islands fragmented into a patchwork of small warring kingdoms. During this period there was widespread ...