There are many treasures to glean from a glance at a beautifully wrought antique map -- just don't expect that any sailor worth his salt ever actually used one while at sea. "Sailors wanted clean ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

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'Caloiero d'Andros, known as the Good Old Man,' map from 'Le Grand Insulaire' by cosmographer André Thevet (1516-1592). MILLON On September 24, the Parisian auction house Millon will be selling a ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

Check out Laura Ten Eyck's appraisal of a 1791 Jane Young world map needlework in Junk in the Trunk 12. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...