Let's face it. Paper maps are a bit out of fashion now that we have smartphones. But old world maps and atlases are chock-full of history, of once-uncharted territories — and if you zoom close, "sea ...

This 430-year-old world map, digitized for the first time, is "more than just a map!," according to historian David Rumsey.

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New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore talked about different examples of historic interpretations of the world. She explored various examples of maps and images that represented the Americas and the ...

Maps must be more than static reference tools; they must be dynamic platforms that reflect the world as it changes.

Experts have restored one of the largest known early maps of the world, and it's glorious, mythical creatures and all. The hand-drawn map was created 430 years ago by Urbano Monte. Centuries later ...

Up until the early 1500s, Europeans thought of the world as having three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. Early world maps consisted of these three parts, but sometimes mentioned a "fourth part of ...

R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Archaeologists have unveiled what is believed to be the world’s oldest 3D map, an astonishing relic from the Paleolithic era ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.

One early map of America’s southeast coast, drawn by French Huguenot settler Jacques LaMoyne in the 1560s, showed the shoreline of South Carolina, Florida and Cuba extending too far to the east.

Old world maps and atlases are chock full of history, uncharted territories and, if you look carefully, sea monsters.