<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 ...

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...

One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American ...

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

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Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

If the news of Civilization 7 has your 4X muscles twitching, a new update for fellow historical strategy game Old World might be just what we need. Created by Civ 4 lead designer Soren Johnson, built ...

FROM the work of cartographers who first charted the Philippines in the 16th century to World War II maps used by Japanese or American forces for wartime strategy, Gallery of Prints has remained a ...

She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most accessible resources. By Sam Roberts Alice Hudson, who, after enrolling in a ...