A Playskool jigsaw puzzle map of the United States. CBS News Soon, puzzles expanded their reach beyond learning, with puzzles depicting nursery rhymes and fairytale subjects, ships and trains.

Maps are early jigsaw puzzles LONDON, March 23 (UPI) -- Early jigsaw puzzles, world maps used to teach geography to the children of Britain's King George III , have gone on display in London.

According to Rebecca Onion of Slate, the "dissected maps" were handcrafted by cartographers as learning tools. John Spilsbury is credited as the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle, but only the well-to ...

Some of the earliest surviving dissected maps, made in London in the 1760s, were sold by London mapmaker John Spilsbury. Spilsbury affixed paper to wooden boards and cut his puzzles into pieces ...

Central Asia’s energy jigsaw puzzle getting more complicated. Leaders from Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan meet to discuss energy and pipelines. Wooed by Russia, ...