<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

The urge to map is a basic, enduring human instinct. Where would we be without maps? The obvious answer is, of course, 'lost', but maps provide answers to many more questions than simply how to get ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...

The first known world map was inscribed into clay tablets in ancient Babylonia. ONE OF the most newfangled is SURELY the Google Earth app, which quite literally, puts the world at your fingertips.

Maps are more than a measure of space; they are also records of how humans have understood, examined, and reconsidered the earth throughout history. In his new book, Great Maps, Jerry Brotton uses ...

Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

Mounted on remnants of the old Ming Dynasty city wall, which once surrounded Beijing, are Western clocks and astronomical instruments for observing celestial bodies. Some of them were gifts from ...