La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he spotted at a Getty estate sale. His careful eye uncovered a 14th century treasure he purchased for a ...

That would place the map, at latest, in the 15th century and not the 16th. But finding out the exact age — and how much the chart was truly worth — took Clausen on a months-long historical ...

The rare 14th-century portolan chart is worth $7.5 million. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images. Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of ...

It looks like a strip of spotted cardboard with a few red markings, yet it has laid a trail of arson, death and the plague and is changing some notions about history. It’s one of an astonishi… ...

While the map in the Bodleian Library dates from the mid-14th century, experts think it was copied from an earlier map, from around 1280, which didn't survive. "Geographically, it fits with the ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

From maps produced for the kings of Spain and Portugal to a 12th-century world map oriented with south at the top and a life-size hand coloured photograph of a 15th-century map of the world, the ...

An ancient map titled "Nihon fuso koku no zu" is seen at the Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History. (Photo courtesy of the museum) FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of ...

A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history. By Isabella Kwai A spice merchant stabbed by a fruit seller over a longstanding feud. A street ...