SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 17th century map of Australia, predating British settlement, has gone on display for the first time after suffering extensive damage while purportedly housed for hundreds of years ...

The National Library of Scotland received a bundle found in a chimney, and six months of conservation revealed the rags to be a rare 17th-century map. When a 17th-century chart of the world found ...

The walls of the History Gallery at the R. R. Smith Center for History & Art will soon be adorned with dozens of 17th century, copper-engraved and beautifully hand colored maps of France – a tribute ...

During a meeting with Valery Zorkin, the chairman of the Constitutional Court in Russia, President Vladimir Putin used a map from the 17th century to explain that Ukraine was created under the USSR.

Installation view, ‘China at the Center’ at the Asian Art Museum, showing Matteo Ricci’s “A Complete Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the World” (1602) in the background (photo by Noah Berger, all ...

Anyone who loves the history behind antique objects will be intrigued by the story behind Andy Ladak’s 17th-century map. “My sister found this badly framed map in 2017 in my mother's basement in ...

A rare 17th Century map of Australia, one of just two left, has gone on display for the first time. Created in 1659 by renowned Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu, the unique map was thought to have been ...

British theologian Thomas Burnet created this world without water in 1694 to reveal the landscape of the entire Earth. The map, however, was more than speculative geology — it was presented as ...