Old maps were pricey and precious ... made the Carta marina—he also first dubbed the continents across the Atlantic “the Americas.”) Of course, Europe doesn’t have a monopoly on ...

That all changed thanks to the work of Marie Tharp. Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps ...

Like film stills from a 600-million-year-old blockbuster, Blakey's maps take us back to the Precambrian ... including the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, and he allowed himself to speculate ...

KING: The Atlantic’s project on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. A security guard walked over to look at the old map. “Florida,” he said with a point and a smile. The map had been ...

This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade ... And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn ...

Concerned that he was the only person with a copy of this map, which depicts the Earth as flat, Homuth protected it. When he learned that the Pioneer Historical Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota ...