Labels written in cuneiform, an ancient text, note each location on the map, according to The British Museum. Interestingly, cartographers may have used some creative license. For instance ...

According to experts from the British Museum, the text on the tablet also describes the inhabitants of these distant areas, both divine and human. Imago Mundi is an ancient map that not only opens ...

It features 632 sites across the UK, Europe and into Africa including urban settlements and mountain passes The map covers approximately 4 million square miles (10 million square km) of land and ...

In the example above, a text in Syriac overlays a ninth-century translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician known as Galen. With dozens of palimpsests yet to ...