In a world where satellite imaging and digital cartography rule, the idea of a 5,000-year-old map redrawing our historical borders is irresistible. Unanswered Questions Fuel The Fire ...

We've seen plenty of 4X games that try to tackle the whole scope of human history, or our distant future among the stars. But Old World zooms in both on time and space, creating what is still a ...

The world's oldest known map, dating back over 3,000 years, has been discovered in the France, offering a rare glimpse into ancient territorial boundaries.

Long before satellites and Google, cartographers traced out maps of the world, some with errors that persisted for hundreds of years. In "The Phantom Atlas," author Edward Brooke-Hitching compiles ...

Maps could change the way people understood the world around them. In the 1880s, the social reformer Charles Booth produced a moral map of London, with houses color-coded by income and—in Booth ...

Old World is a much-needed new player in the field of historical 4X games—too long has Sid Meier’s name hung over every meaningful entry in the genre like the eternal ghost of a despotic ...

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The large map of the world on the floor of Terminal 1 at the old Salt Lake City International Airport in 2012. The map dates back to 1961.

I’d flown here for a chance to hold a 480-year-old map in my hand. The archive’s curators had given me no guarantees but said that I could come, in person, to make the request.

Ancient history's wild stories play out in Old World, ... and a nice side effect is you don't spend every turn giving every single unit on your map a command.

Take ciabatta. “That ciabatta bread that every artisan bakery made was from 1985,” Myhrvold says. Ciabatta was indeed a recent invention: As the Guardian reports, an early version was created ...