Maps in the 1500s depicted California as a peninsula, which is closer to the truth (the Baja peninsula extends roughly a 1,000 miles south from the present-day Golden State).

Early maps of the Americas made by indigenous people are rare—extremely rare. This map, dated 1593, is one of fewer than 100 such documents that have survived the ravages of time.

The Mapping Memory exhibition contains work by indigenous mapmakers from the late 1500s. The maps demonstrate a very different sense of space than maps drawn by Europeans. They're not drawn to ...

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The discovery, near El-’Iraq, was led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh. Excavations ...

It had to be there: an ocean at the top of the world. The ancient Greeks drew it on their maps, and for centuries, the rest of Europe did too. Beginning in the 1500s, countless men died trying to ...

Guided by the 1,500-year-old Madaba Mosaic Map, a team of researchers has uncovered what they believe to be the remnants of this ancient city near the southeastern edge of Jordan's Dead Sea, ...

This Map Details Florida’s Disappearing Native American ... who lived in the area in the 1500s when the Spanish arrived—and many inhabitants before them—gathered food from the rich estuaries ...

The BPL Center for Brooklyn History Map Collections depict 450 years of NYC history. ... You can now search through 1,500 fascinating historical maps of NYC.

Interested in New York City history? Now you can take advantage of a cool new resource to dive into it on a block-by-block basis. The Brooklyn Historical Society has digitized over 1,500 maps from ...

Recognised as the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Lands, the Madaba Mosaic Map was crafted during the reign of Emperor Justinian.