The Equal Earth World Map builds off previously released maps like the Mercator projection map and the Gall-Peters projection map. However, these two maps had problems of their own.

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, ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world map. Rather than myth and religion, it was based on solid evidence for the first time. Close. Advertisement.

GET LOST The Map Shop, in Charlotte, N.C., sells a wide variety of unique geographic charts. ... Historians consider this tablet, roughly 2,500 years old, the earliest existing map of the world.

Also, a heart-shaped map of the world from 1566 by the Italian artist Giovanni Cimerlino; and a colorful world map from 1578 by the Belgian cartographer Cornelis de Jode.