John Haywood of Princeton University chronicles the spread of writing systems in "The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance." Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On Facebook ...

The author of nearly 90 books in history, the late Sir Martin (1936-2015) was an inveterate “amateur” cartographer and for his own research created simple, clear, black and white maps with an ...

The extensive current and historical map holdings are constantly expanded. They comprise around 400,000 scientific, technical and topographical maps and atlases from the nineteenth to the twenty-first ...

An atlas has pictures of the same places as the globe but they are spread out over the pages, which allows you to see the world in more detail. This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round ...

MISSOURI — From towns named after historical figures to local landmarks, the World Atlas spotlighted seven ‘quirky’ communities for their unique names. According to the World Atlas ...