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 ...

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" ...