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Recording incredibly detailed geographical boundaries usually involves delicate scrolls that completely disintegrate over time. Certain ancient mapmakers…
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Maps can look quiet, but the ones redrawn after World War I thunder with endings. The earth-colored Austro-Hungarian Empire vanished like sand traced by…
Discover moreIn an era where a correct bearing could yield a fortune in nutmeg and cinnamon, cartography was basically an aggressive arms race. The Portuguese Casa da…
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Medieval cartographers weren't exactly concerned with GPS accuracy, but the 13th-century Ebstorf Map took creative liberty to an unhinged theological extreme.…
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Getting scammed is bad, but getting scammed out of millions by a map drawn with modern house paint is a special kind of academic humiliation. In 1965, Yale…
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A simple smudge of ink changed the destiny of an entire region. During medieval border negotiations, mapmakers relying on wildly inaccurate topography…
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