In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and is known as the Imago Mundi. Dating to the seventh century B.C.E., it ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

In a hand-drawn map of the world, hundreds of animals sprawl across valleys and volcanoes, deltas and deserts. In Australia, marsupials abound: A snarling Tasmanian devil stands before craggy ...

The Equal Earth World Map, on the other hand, builds on a combination of these two—a hybrid map known as the Robinson projection map, which took bits and pieces of each map to make it highly ...

Trekking Across Switzerland, Guided by Locals’ Hand-Drawn Maps Nostalgic for a time before ubiquitous connectivity, a writer ditched his phone and relied instead on serendipity — and maps made ...

When it was done, it was the most detailed and accurate map of the known world that anyone had yet made. Grab a Copy. Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, ...