Map symbols show what can be found in an area. Each feature of the landscape has a different symbol. Contour lines are lines that join up areas of equal height on a map. By looking at how far ...

On of the most popular artists the Ward's sell is Pat Fogg, whose work focuses on coastal nautical map drawings. Other area artists include Dan Goad's watercolors, and the coastal photographs of ...

The nautical map of the Mediterranean and Black seas is inked onto the skin of a single sheep. It is a rare representative of one of the world’s greatest and most enduring mysteries: Where and ...

Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of an estate sale for Ann and Gordon Getty. But the artifact ...