Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Even those who know little of ancient ... making it the world’s oldest illustrated book ever found. The team furthermore found two dozen extant texts of the Book Of Two Ways maps inside the ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

This intricate map of the ancient Egyptian underworld may be the first illustrated “book” in ... were meant to “situate the deceased in the world of the gods,” study author Harco Willems ...

can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a piece of rock etched with mysterious markings. But it turns out, the so-called "Saint ...

Chet Van Duzer, a cartographic historian and the author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps analyses Paolo Forlani's 1560 world map – the first known instance of the name "Canada" ...

This history of the Atlantic world is packed with paintings, maps both ancient and modern, and photographs. Prolific historian and Emmy-winning TV writer Sandler points out that scholars have only ...

Egyptologists have discovered the oldest copy of what is being called the world’s first illustrated book, a 4,000-year-old edition of the “Book of Two Ways,” an ancient Egyptian guide to the ...

With these discoveries, according to one researcher, comes a single giant one -- all these drawing and engravings map the prehistoric peoples' cosmological world. It is likely some of the most ...