A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...

Three thousand years ago, our ancestors began a long experiment in figuring out how they fit into the world, by inventing a bold new tool: the map. One of the oldest surviving maps is, ironically ...

Most significant, it depicted the New World in a dramatically ... remarkable discoveries in the history of cartography," its report read. Interest in the map grew. In 1907, the London-based ...

Though largely a product of the past now found mainly in history books, colonialism's effects still linger today.Assembled below are maps of historical empires, some of which rivaled the British ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

2007 Historic Centre of Florence - Map of the World Heritage property Clarification / adopted 2015 Historic Centre of Florence - maps of the inscribed minor boundary modification 2021 Historic Centre ...