<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 ...

Maps dont just show us where to go, but also where weve been. A stunning overview of all human history, side by side with 140 custom maps. Learn how something like the printing press can define a time ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sebastian C. Adams’s Chronological ...

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Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean, innovative maps of these unfamiliar territories became objects of power and intrigue. Alberto Cantino, an ...

This map was my father's(a commissioned officer in the Indian Army)who fought in the Burma campaign. The maps were given to officers entering Rangoon following the Japanese retreat. The map is ...

Can we easily explain our preference for some regions over others? Let’s start by looking again at the aggregate results of the study which map the proportion of historians working on a region against ...

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

This map was my father's(a commissioned officer in the Indian Army)who fought in the Burma campaign. The maps were given to officers entering Rangoon following the Japanese retreat. The map is ...