He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into ... One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the imaginations of ancient ...

The world map of today also takes us back to a time ... In a significant development in the field of cartography, Ptolemy was the first to apply latitude and longitude coordinates to map countries ...

Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and ... ever since the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy created the first world atlas in the second century A.D. The ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first burger stand in San Bernardino, CA. With the help of Ray Kroc, the brothers took their restaurant across the country over the course of the ...

Ptolemy, Geography I.11 Map showing the five possible locations of the Stone Tower: Tashkent, Sulaiman-Too, Erkeshtam, Daraut-Kurgan and Tashkurgan. Credit: DutchTreat / Wikimedia Commons Tashkurgan, ...

Many recent open-world games are so expansive that players need to invest over 100 hours just to uncover the entire map. Space-based open-world games take this even further, offering maps so large ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.