The evolution of the map of Africa will be presented in an exhibition of historic maps and European explorers' narratives from the University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections ...

MR. STANLEY, in the paper which he read at the Geographical Society on Monday, spoke of Africa being brought to light after an oblivion of 6,000 years. Notwithstanding the somewhat confused ...

Zooming in on old maps of Africa using geographic browsers such as Google Earth will soon become possible. The Library of Congress received a $240,240 grant from a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit ...

The Chinese map, covering more than 17 square metres, was produced in silk. It is thought to be a copy of a map sculpted into rock 20 or 30 years earlier. It is never been shown to the public before ...

No longer a palace, the old 77 building now houses an apartment block and a couple of restaurants and cafes on the bottom ... Berlin conference 1885 Africa colonial map 1880 1914-1739884987 ...

Just as recent political dynamics have rendered the old map of the Middle East obsolete, so have large-scale social changes. From the 1950s through the 1980s, the mass migration of laborers from ...

LOOKING at an old map of Africa last year, I noticed an island named San Matteo about half-way between Ascension and the Gold Coast. My curiosity was aroused, and in the past eighteen months I ...

Not even Facebook knows that historic maps of Africa once referred to the ocean off its west coast as the Ethiopian Ocean, even though Ethiopia is on the continent's eastern side.