historic maps literally show us how the world as we know it came to be. Sometimes, we can gain a visual of a long-gone place.

The world's longest walking route goes from Cape Town in South Africa to the port city of Magadan in eastern Russia. It is 22,387 km (13,910 miles) long. The route was put together by a Reddit user ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would ... when it began a long decline.

The Lindenhurst bar where Hoff sat and where he met his victim was a dive joint tight to the railroad tracks called the ...

The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

The Census Bureau’s most recent American Community Survey estimates more than 15.8 million Americans previously served.

As of Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern, ABC News is reporting that Republicans have won at least 218 seats in the next House ...

Snakes can grow to colossal sizes, although some reports have long been exaggerated. The largest snakes in the world belong to the python and boa families. Which family contains the biggest depends on ...

What is certain, however, is that the era of American exceptionalism has ended. Under Trump, U.S. foreign policy will cease ...

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mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.