<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

What if you could travel through time and watch history unfold, one era at a time? With TimeMap.org, you can do just that—no time machine required. This interactive history map lets you dive into the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sebastian C. Adams’s Chronological ...

Geography used to be one of those subjects everyone was expected to know at least a little bit about. Students learned countries, capitals, oceans, rivers, and mountain ranges because maps helped ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

The modern world isn’t an accident, at least when it comes to overall geography. Often, the borders we see on any map were drawn by the edge of a sword or at the end of a rifle. Thousands of battles ...

A map of the world can teach kids about so many things — not just different countries in the world, but also where they live in comparison to other countries, features of different countries and how ...