Hartmann Schedel created “The Nuremberg Chronicle,” an illustrated history of the world going all the way back to biblical times. In an accompanying map, he taught society about the types of ...

Though largely a product of the past now found mainly in history books, colonialism's effects still linger today.Assembled below are maps of historical empires, some of which rivaled the British ...

2007 Historic Centre of Florence - Map of the World Heritage property Clarification / adopted 2015 Historic Centre of Florence - maps of the inscribed minor boundary modification 2021 Historic Centre ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.