Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about ...
During the Little Ice Age the islands became colder, windier and wetter than they had been, factors which may explain why the 13th-century settlement was eventually abandoned. Although the islands ...
The Carta Pisana or Carte Pisane is a map probably made at the end of the 13th century, about 1275–1300, currently conserved in the Département des cartes et plans at the Bibliothèque nationale de ...
Polynesian explorers settled on a group of freezing sub-Antarctic islands in the 13th century after a “mind-blowing” voyage across the Southern Pacific Ocean, archaeologists have discovered.
The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, used AI to analyse maps of the US dating as far back as 1884 that included locations of oil and gas wells long out of operation. Fabio ...
These three routes were revived following the Crusades and the "heightened trade that followed." In second half of 13th century, all three routes were functioning. It is important because this meant ...