Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...

Maps have shaped human history far more than many people realize. Long before satellites and digital navigation existed, maps helped civilizations trade, travel, wage wars, and explore unfamiliar ...

Mapping the world is one of humanity's most enduring passions, something we've done with varying degrees of success for over a thousand years. Short, a geography professor at the University of ...

This striking study from cartographer and historian Rankin (After the Map) explores the politics of mapmaking. “Maps aren’t just collections of facts,” Rankin writes, but are “profoundly cultural.” ...

The latest issue of Humboldt Geographic gathers a decade of maps and stories from Cal Poly Humboldt cartography students, inviting readers to see maps not only as navigational tools but as narrative ...

World map in Ptolemy’s “Geographia” (1460) (courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and ...

For better or worse, the map is back. Repeatedly over the past century, the end of history appeared poised to render maps obsolete. Conflict, it turns out, is eminently mappable. Peace and prosperity, ...

If you have ever found yourself asking what the name of the individual responsible for making the maps is, then the answer is ...