Drawing on historical maps, Arab and Greek sources, and the shared heritage of the Mediterranean, I argue for the preservation of historical nomenclature and the defense of cultural memory against ...

In 1929, an old parchment map was rediscovered at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. It depicted the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, West Africa, and the coast of South America. The person who created ...

In 1929, while renovating the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, a theologian discovered a fragment of gazelle skin that would rewrite the history of cartography. This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart ...

to learn more about GIS entertainer Iriyama. Click here for the GIS software comparison table. In 1513, an Ottoman admiral named Piri Reis drew a world map. Then, over 400 years later in 1929, the map ...

No authentic map of Columbus was known until Prof. P. Kahle in 1929 found among a number of old charts in the Seraglio at Istanbul a coloured Turkish map of the Atlantic with its islands and coasts.

On October 9, 1929, a German theologian named Gustav Adolf Deissmann was cataloguing items in the Topkapi Palace library in Istanbul when he happened across a curious parchment located among some ...

In the mid-16th century, control of maritime trade routes in the Indian Ocean became a central struggle between the Ottoman Empire and Portugal. The Portuguese had seized Hormuz Island, at the ...

Have you ever taken a photo and seen a mysterious shadow lurking in the corner? People say that eyes can play tricks on us, but what about the times there's visual proof of those tricks? "Photoshop ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come from a sci-fi movie or a classified leak—but it feels like both. They call ...