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 ...

The National Library of China has included the map of Fangmatan, an archaeological site in Gansu province that dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC – AD 24), on the list of ancient and ...

Maps are tools to show you where you are going, but they can also show you where you came from. That principle drives the work of Roberto Rodríguez and Patrisia Gonzales, who study ancient maps ...

Antique maps of the Philippines are valuable as singles but, when seen in a series, depict in their detailed differences the emergence of a nation. Velarde’s map may be three centuries old but it ...

A series of ancient maps drawn by Persian and Arabian geographers from the ninth to 17th centuries show the disputed waters and islands of the South China Sea have been Chinese territory since ...

A new release, Between Heaven and Earth: Stories of China in Ancient Maps, revives over 50 ancient maps dating from the Warring States period to the Qing Dynasty. Drawing from the National Library of ...

“All these ancient maps show that since the first Chinese maps appeared, the southernmost territory of China has always been Hainan Island, with its ancient names being Zhuya, then Qiongya, and ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary c… ...

Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

Ancient maps reveal dramatic coral loss British navy charts provide missing data that could be vital to ecologists. Historical nautical charts of the Florida Keys include historical coral references.

By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines on Thursday put on display dozens of ancient maps which officials said showed that China's territorial claims over the South China Sea did not ...