Maps

Ten thousand years of humans drawing the world — from Babylonian clay tablets to satellite imagery.

8 posts· 11660 BCE – 1300

• The Hereford Mappa Mundi: the world as it was meant to be 1300
• The Book of Roger: al-Idrisi maps the world in silver 1154
• Tabula Peutingeriana: seven metres of Roman roads 400 CE
• Ptolemy's Geography and the grid that outlasted Rome 150 CE
• Eratosthenes measures the Earth, or how a shadow told the whole story 240 BCE
• Anaximander's world map, or how a philosopher drew the whole earth 550 BCE
• The Babylonian world map, or how an empire drew the edge of everything 600 BCE
• The Abauntz map, or how a hunter scratched the world onto a stone 11660 BCE