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Europe's oldest map

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...
Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...
The Library of Congress has recently digitized a group of puzzle maps dating from the late 18 th to the early 20 th century. These “dissected maps” were the first generation of jigsaw puzzles; ...
Recent scientific literature has highlighted the relevance of population genetic studies both for disease association mapping in admixed populations and for understanding the history of human ...
A map of Doggerland, which once connected Britain to mainland Europe Europe's Lost Frontiers Project As recently as 20,000 years ago—not long in geological terms—Britain was not, in fact, an island.