Physical maps may be disposable or obsolete today, but during the 17th century they were invaluable and prized documents. Naturally, it came as a bit of a shock when experts at the National ...

A 17th century map was found in a chimney in Scotland and then delivered to the National Library of Scotland crumpled inside a plastic bag and basically destroyed. Just unraveling the fragile ...

A 17th century map of Australia, predating British settlement, has gone on display for the first time after suffering extensive damage while purportedly housed for hundreds of years in a Swedish ...

Born in 1601, Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the "last Renaissance Man" owing to his scholarly works in fields as diverse as biology, geology, ...

"And in Mezo-American cartography, the maps look very different from what Western cartographic maps look like." And so it doesn't look much like a 21st Century road atlas. "This map is the history ...

The rare 17th-Century wall map was rediscovered in a private home in Italy where it is believed to have remained since the late 19th-Century. According to Sotheby’s, it is the very first map to ...

Chet Van Duzer's "Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" (British Library, 2013) charts the evolution of the mythical creatures that adorned atlases from the 10th century through the 17th ...

A 17th Century map of Lancashire has been put on public display for the first time. The design, drawn by Elizabethan cartographer William Smith, shows major towns, such as Blackburn and includes ...

Natasha Raskin Sharp picks up a 17th century map. Ishy Kahn eyes a Victorian prayer chair. In the East Midlands, Natasha Raskin Sharp picks up a 17th century map of Nottinghamshire and a Victorian ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday cited a 17th-Century map of Europe to back his discredited thesis that Ukraine isn't a real country, a claim that he's used to justify Russia's unprovoked ...

Maps show a house was built on the site in the 17th century, revamped in the 18th century and demolished in the early 19th ...