The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Known as the creator of the modern atlas, Abraham Ortelius ... existed as its own state from Napoleonic Wars to World War I ...

Words on maps have sticking power, writes Art Historian Stephanie Leitch. What are the implications of Google's Gulf of ...