The majority of the maps are of late-19th- and early-twentieth-century Palestine, but the collection also includes one map of Palestine from the 16th century and several late-19th-century maps of the ...

A map of Jerusalem that was drafted some 190 years ago by a German tourist was recently unearthed by two researchers – one Israeli, the other German – in an archive in Berlin.

Not in the traditional sense that the people disappeared or that buildings were left to fall into ruin, but in the sense that a purpose was lost, swallowed by something much bigger, and an identity ...

But a mid-19th century map of a Western U.S. state or territory is going to be more valuable because that could represent some of the earliest accurate mapping done of that area.” ...

The show is packed with hundreds of guidebooks, photobooks, viewbooks, photos, and maps, dating from roughly the early-1800s up through the 1940s (1807-1940), that invite close examination.