A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British Museum researchers to an astonishing find: a reference to a Great Flood story ...

File photo of the Lawrence Public Library on Friday, July 26, 2024. Next year should be a big year for the Lawrence Public Library, as it will start off with a lot of work on the library’s ...

The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --An overdue library book was returned to the Chantilly Regional Library after 36 years and a trip to Greece. The Fairfax County Library system posted about the book's return on Facebook ...

Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into history, culture and how we perceive the world. We visit a map library in ...

ForbesWomen Editor Maggie McGrath sat down with Forbes to discuss the logistics and metrics behind the publication's list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. McGrath touches on the $37 trillion in ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but... From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, GPS has been a game changer - a tap, a voice, a turn-by-turn path, will get you there. But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, GPS has been a game changer – a tap, a voice, a turn-by-turn path, will get you there. But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or ...

The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1575, by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is often considered the world’s first atlas. The library has two copies. (Greta Rybus | for NPR) PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, ...

Jim Thomas, 92, a retired NASA rocket propulsion engineer and Anniston native, looks over maps from his lifelong collection now housed in the Alabama Room at the Public Library of Anniston and Calhoun ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...