Time Map is an interactive historical map of the world. You can zoom in to place and time to find out what happened, who was ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, ...

Claudius Ptolemy, World Map, 150 AD Al-Sharif al-Idrisi, World Map, 1154 Richard of Haldingham, Mappa-mundi, 1300 The Yu Ji Tu, 1137 Martin Waldseemüller’s Universal Cosmography, 1507 ...

Not a map really, but a 5-foot-high chart showing in one glance 4,000 years of human history on a global scale. Thirty years ...

A History of the World in 12 Maps Jerry Brotton. Viking, $40 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-02339-4. In an era when Google Maps is regarded as a standard convenience, this history of 12 epoch-defining maps ...

Tour world-class museums, read historic cookbooks, browse interactive maps and more Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History A stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany ...

Van Duzer’s new book, The World for a King, reproduces the map in the original colors and at full scale—in 42 sections—for the first time. His research found that Desceliers took most of his ...

This map is believed to be the first attempt at depicting the world as a two-dimensional sphere by Johannes Stabius, the court mathematician to Emperor Maximilian I. No known copies exist of the ...

One reason mapmakers may have done this is to hide their ignorance, says Van Duzer. When the Dutch mapmaker Pieter van den Keere made a world map in 1611 (see above), the interior of North America ...

Ms. Hudson cataloged African American historical sites revealed by early New York City maps, including Weeksville, a 19th-century enclave of freed slaves in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn ...

In his new book, “A History of the World in 12 Maps,” Jerry Brotton looks at twelve examples of mapmaking from the last 2,000 years.The first known world map was inscribed into clay tablets in ...