Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is ...

In this video I show and talk about a few interesting maps of Europe that teach us about the continent and its countries. ▶ ...

Here’s a map showing a longer period of time, from 1 A.D. to 2000 A.D., made using maps from Euratlas. At the beginning of the common era, Europe was dominated by the Roman Empire.

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

Researchers are merging multidisciplinary expertise with AI tools to document, reconstruct and preserve Europe's historical ...

A century ago at the beginning of the First World War, the maps of Europe, Asia and Africa looked much different than they do today. Historians say many of the border changes - agreed upon after ...

When studying Western history, we tend to say that this European explorer discovered this continent or that island, when those lands were already long inhabited. Cartographer Bill Rankin maps out ...

This map shows Europe on the eve of Franco-Prussian War of 1870. While Prussia is a fat man that is going to burst, Russia is shown as an angry man who is only bothered with how to fill his basket.

The map gives an account of how European cities and border zones have been transformed over time by migrants’ presence. ... Their struggle to stay is now becoming part of Europe’s history.

Maps are more than a measure of space; they are also records of how humans have understood, examined, and reconsidered the earth throughout history. In his new book, Great Maps, Jerry Brotton uses ...

In April 2024, the Facebook page The sound of Train shared two maps that allegedly compared passenger train lines in the United States and Europe (archived): The post had earned 117,000 reactions ...