Saudi Aramco World : The Seas of Sindbad

This map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Mütef...

Saudi Aramco World : Monsoons, Mude and Gold

The “global economy” of the Middle Ages was created by linking the Indian Ocean trading networks with those of the Mediterranean Sea and i...

Website: Historic Map Works, LLC

Based in Portland Maine, Historic Map Works, LLC is an Internet company formed to create a historic digital map database of North America ...

Website: Old Maps

Reproductions of historic town maps, state maps, birds eye views, and more. www.old-maps.com     (with a dash) Old Maps   is the name o...

Antonino Saliba 1582

The only known example of the Jollain/De Jode edition of Saliba’s map of the cosmos, integrating ancient Pagan and medieval Christian cosm...

Quinatzin Map

Quinatzin Map, leaf 1 (top panel), ink and color on amatl, circa 1542. Quinatzin Map, leaf 2 (center panel), ink and color on amatl, circa 1...

Ebstorf map

According to Denis Wood, “maps are about relationships. In other words, they are about how one landscape—a landscape of roads, of rivers, ...

The Egyptian Nobleman

A noble's estate, like this one at Tell el Amarna, far more than a family dwelling. It was built around workshops, stables, shrines an...

Website: Labyrinthos

Prehistoric labyrinth petroglyph, Pansaimol, Goa, India Have a history that can be traced back over 4000 years. The earliest examples, found...

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Stained Glass Map, Massachusetts, 1998

"Brightening with each swipe of a workman's cloth, stained glass in the Christian Science Mapparium in Boston, Massachusetts, sho...

Monastyr

Monastyr is a Polish role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world of Dominium. Its setting features a fantastic equivalent of the Age ...

Bosporus (Bosphorus)

This narrow, zigzagging, 18- mile-long channel flows south-westward from the BLACK SEA to the SEA OF MARMARA. Beyond the Marmara, the curr...

Geocentrism - It makes the World go round!

The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced a...

Landslides

Types of landslides There are four types of landslides. Soil creep is a slow movement—as its name suggests—due to tiny shifts in the soil ...

Heart of the Polis—the Agora

A Athens is governed by an assembly of 500 elected members— called the Boule—who meet in the New and Old Bouleuterion. A “steering committ...

Wisdom of the oracle

Delphi is located on the southern slopes of sacred Mount Parnassus, about 12 miles from the Gulf of Corinth. While some come here to quest...

Bathymetric map

A bathymetric map is a map that measures water depth across an underwater area. Although many people think of bathymetric maps as measurin...

Great Mappaemundi

In a twelfth-century map contained with other miscellaneous material at the front of an English Computus manuscript, the marginalization o...

Humboldt and Ritter

Collection: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Author: Ziegler, J. M. Attributed Author: Ritter, Carl Date: 1864 Two of the founders o...