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Maps must be more than static reference tools; they must be dynamic platforms that reflect the world as it changes.
In a hand-drawn map of the world, hundreds of animals sprawl across valleys and volcanoes, deltas and deserts. In Australia, marsupials abound: A snarling Tasmanian devil stands before craggy ...
Artist Gareth Fuller likes to draw what he calls “maps of the mind.” Hand-drawn with a pen and uber-detailed — almost every ...
What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...
A map of the Mediterranean world that was created in 1500 by a Jewish cartographer has been acquired by the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Reform) here.
A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a ti… ...
A hand-drawn map with a red 'X' purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of jewelry looted by the Nazis has sparked a treasure hunt. ... As World War II nears its end in 1945, ...
An architectural plan of the Titanic that was used as part of the inquiry into the ship’s sinking sold for more than $240,000 at Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire, U.K. Weeks after the world ...
Trekking Across Switzerland, Guided by Locals’ Hand-Drawn Maps ... The path uphill quickly enters a narrow river gorge — lush trees and suddenly a different world from the lakeside. I am alone.
A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a ti… ...