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What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, this new map doesn't distort Greenland to make it look the same size as Africa.

The most detailed maps of the world will be for cars, not humans Here, Civil Maps, and even Nvidia are all working on a new kind of cartography. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Mar 11, 2017 12:00 pm | 123 ...

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"Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew Edney, a professor of geography and the history of cartography at the University of Southern Maine, told Live Science in an email.

The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. It was a curious little book.