While it is not 100 percent certain that Hipparchus is the source of this star map, some of the evidence of his authorship includes the precision of the ancient astronomer’s measurements.

Image courtesy of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine The island’s name, together with the names of three other nonexistent Lake ...

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ancient geography. Hailing from the venerable city of Abu Habba ...

The National Library of China has included the map of Fangmatan, an archaeological site in Gansu province that dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC – AD 24), on the list of ancient and ...

and together they devised a plan to map the acoustic fingerprint of several churches, starting in Thessaloniki, Greece. Even before their technical analysis began, it was clear that these ancient ...

Map historian Chet Van Duzer gave a talk about ancient maps and sea monsters at the Library of Congress Thursday (Sept. 5).Above: One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant sea ...

The huge map is being displayed at the Library of Congress in Washington A historic map of the world, with China at its centre, has gone on display at the Library of Congress in Washington. The map ...