The Soleto Map is a possibly ancient map depicting Salento and scratched onto a fragment of a terracotta pot (an ostrakon). While the ostrakon itself is...

1806. Soleto became part of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 and was a center of the Carboneria during the Italian Risorgimento. The Soleto Map, the oldest...

world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming...

The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book...

United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century....

extant historical maps. Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) Tabula Rogeriana (1154) Psalter world map (1260) Tabula...

chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics...

topological map is a type of diagram that has been simplified so that only vital information remains and unnecessary detail has been removed. These maps lack...

Whereas most known early maps of Africa were prepared in the framework of the colonial enterprise, some indigenous maps have been recently uncovered, particularly...

The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and...