The Philippines makes its cartographic debut in Petrus Kaerius’s 1598 map. It takes a while to shake off preconceived constructions and identify our different islands; indeed, those familiar with Old ...

“These are old maps that historically indicate our rightful ownership of these areas, particularly Bajo de Masinloc,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto ...

The seminal work “Philippine Cartography 1320 – 1899,” recently edited by Dr. Carlos Madrid, declared how this landmark map “became the iconic representation of the historical position of ...

Old maps dating back to Spanish colonial times may hold the key to the claim of the Philippines to Scarborough Shoal. Known as “Bajo Scarburo,” the shoal now called Panatag by the Department ...

MANILA, Philippines — Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of what they believe is a 1,000-year-old village on a jungle-covered mountaintop in the Philippines with limestone coffins of a type ...