In this video, I’ll explore three mysterious maps that defy conventional history and challenge what we know about the ancient world. From the famous Piri Reis map to other lesser-known but ...

What's cooler than maps? Bizarre ancient maps. Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia Seed.

Irving Finkel from the British Museum. Read also: Babylonian world map: How ancient civilization viewed universe ...

The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity ... Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, ...

The Facebook post's caption read: "The first world map ever, created by Anaximander of Miletus (610 BC–546 BC), a Greek philosopher." Ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander of Miletus is ...

This tree-map is sounding a rare note of optimism in the conservation world. But the Woodland Trust charity warns that these trees - known as ancient ... They also contain history and memory ...