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World map shows which countries were once neighbors
Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds unimaginable, but this was actually the case about 300 million years ago. The ...
Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...
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Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map
In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...
A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost Reporting ...
"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.
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