See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...

The second copy, created between 1526 and 1527, includes a foldout map of the world. It is a version of a T-O map, which were common in medieval Europe. These maps were simple diagrams consisting of a ...

The Piri Reis World Map of 1513 was discovered in the Topkapı Palace Library in 1929. Piri Reis’s is a portolan-style world map created in a time when positioning recently discovered places was almost ...