From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Hidden details in a historic map have helped shed light on one of the great mysteries in American history. The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the settlers who formed the so-called ...

At the Spokane ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2007, a guest named Maurice brought in a large and weathered-looking atlas, which he explained to appraiser Stephen Massey had passed down to him from his ...

Hidden details in a historic map have helped shed light on one of the great mysteries in American history. The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the settlers who formed the so-called ...