This map shows you. Filling in the blanks of your historical knowledge would probably be easier if you could readily visualize when and where events occurred in relation to other events. Fortunately, ...

This interactive history map lets you dive into the past ... It’s like a digital atlas of world history. Using a timeline slider, you can zoom back to any year between 4000 BCE and 2010.

THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS'. LANHYDROCK HOUSE. Joel Gascoyne, the maker of this map, was one of the first to accurately map Cornwall. The atlas is a ...

Cartography or map-making has been revamped by the folks at the “Something about maps” Instagram page. These folks have taken various facts about the world and found a new way to visualize ...

Maps have long been a vital resource for interpreting the world, delineating boundaries, and directing scientific inquiry. However, old world maps have historically frequently represented not only ...

He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into ... “It’s one of the most beautiful maps to have survived from the Renaissance,” says Chet Van ...

John Haywood of Princeton University chronicles the spread of writing systems in "The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance." Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On Facebook ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Christopher Columbus. Both maps reveal the great challenge the New World presented to mapmakers ...