He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into ... the other a collection of historical narratives whose authors included Marco Polo and Christopher ...

She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most ...

I n a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic ...

Dive into the must-read books about maps: from explorations on the history of maritime journeys to depictions of the ...

Still, it's not like Germany is the only nation to have history inform modern politics. Here's a map of Poland's 2007 parliamentary election. The orange regions are the Powiats (counties ...

The standard world map doesn’t include the territories of Indigenous tribes. This mapping project aims to change that.

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.