The National Library of Australia is proud to be the custodian of one of only four copies of Blaeu's rare wall map, Archipelagus Orientalis ... to be added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World ...

His Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, published in Amsterdam in 1662, was an epic affair that spanned 3,368 pages of texts and contained almost 600 maps! Though his work was considered more mass-market than ...

The atlases and maps that were printed in the 17th century in the Amsterdam company of the Blaeu family are world famous. It stands to good reason that Blaeu's world atlas Atlas maior with its ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

The Babylonian map consists of a circular map. Along with that, there are a few pieces of text written in an an ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

to colorful world maps that portray the engraving techniques of cartographers. Of especial interest are Willem Janszoon Blaeu’s Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula (1635) ...

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

The holiday season is made for binge-watching, and ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is a series the whole family can enjoy together! With that in mind, we compiled some of the Best Moments from this year’s ...

The map has attracted interest from bidders from around the world. Lyon and Turnbull The historic ... it is much more accurate than the later Gordon Blaeu map of 1654 and the Moll map of 1714." ...

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the ...