Even those who know little of ancient ... making it the world’s oldest illustrated book ever found. The team furthermore found two dozen extant texts of the Book Of Two Ways maps inside the ...

This intricate map of the ancient Egyptian underworld may be the first illustrated “book” in ... were meant to “situate the deceased in the world of the gods,” study author Harco Willems ...

Chet Van Duzer, a cartographic historian and the author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps analyses Paolo Forlani's 1560 world map – the first known instance of the name "Canada" ...

can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a piece of rock etched with mysterious markings. But it turns out, the so-called "Saint ...

Egyptologists have discovered the oldest copy of what is being called the world’s first illustrated book, a 4,000-year-old edition of the “Book of Two Ways,” an ancient Egyptian guide to the ...