Most importantly: Old maps—early modern European maps—contain uncharted territory, across which beasts rumble and serpents writhe. They have dragons. Our technology might be indistinguishable ...

A new analysis of a Bronze Age stone slab found in France more than a century ago suggests that the roughly 4,000-year-old artifact is Europe’s oldest known map. BBC News reports that the ...

A Bronze-age slab first uncovered in 1900 in western France is the oldest map in Europe, according to a study released this week. The 4,000-year-old object, known as the Saint-Belec slab ...

But the result is that the political map of Europe has changed beyond all ... they still lag behind “old Europe” in living standards and the initial, near-miraculous growth spurt at the ...

Only one older map has been found in Europe in Pavlov in the Czech Republic. This 25,000-year-old rock depicts a mountain, river and valleys from the region. It was not until 600BC that the first ...