Step through the doors of Antique World Mall and The Annex in Boise, Idaho, and you’ve just entered the mothership for treasure hunters, nostalgia seekers, and anyone who’s ever whispered “they don’t ...

An incredible new map captures a stunning snapshot of the Roman Empire's vast transportation system as it was nearly 2,000 ...

That’s where the “$40 goes a long way” comes into play. With that amount in your pocket, you could walk out with a small piece of furniture, several books, a complete set of glassware, or a collection ...

FROM the work of cartographers who first charted the Philippines in the 16th century to World War II maps used by Japanese or American forces for wartime strategy, Gallery of Prints has remained a ...

Meet Nigel Brown, the 70 year old man who boasts Britain's largest collection of maps, owning over 2,000, and believes that ...

'Caloiero d'Andros, known as the Good Old Man,' map from 'Le Grand Insulaire' by cosmographer André Thevet (1516-1592). MILLON On September 24, the Parisian auction house Millon will be selling a ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

These articles appear on page 124 of the September 17, 2025 edition of Country Life magazine. Some copies of this issue suffered from a printing error which affected ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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 ...

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 ...