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All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Ding Hao, a local tour guide with 13 years of experience, told the Global Times that no matter how many times he has seen it, he always finds that Datong in spring has a unique charm. While exploring ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Ancient cartographers, working with primitive tools and limited travel capabilities, somehow created maps with stunning accuracy and details of lands supposedly “undiscovered” during their era. These ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

The onetime vice-presidential nominee insists the Times’ corrections to a 2017 editorial were insufficient as an apology for ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

He was excited to go to Oxford, but the relentless workload made him hate college. He transferred to a university with a ...

Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.