Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG
SAGE MUSEUM
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WORLD COLLECTION · EXPERIENCE
MAPS & JOURNEYS
Routes · Navigation · Exploration · Geography
Follow how people imagined, mapped and crossed the world through maps, roads, navigation tools and travel routes.
THE MET · OPEN ACCESS
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
ORIGINAL COLLECTION RECORDS
ANCIENT MAPS
Early attempts to represent territory and the known world.
1794 Anville Map of Israel, Palestine or the Holy Land in Ancient Times - Geographicus - IsraelPalestine-anville-1794.jpg
Ancient score.jpg
Matenadaran, Ancient Manuscript Repository - panoramio.jpg
Map of ancient France (1578).jpg
Map of ancient France (1600).jpg
EXPLORATION MAPS
Maps produced through travel, conquest and exploration.
Fairbanks Exploration Company, Goldstream Dredge No. 8, Fox, Fairbanks (North Star Borough, Alaska).jpg
BP Exploration Building Anchorage.jpg
Fairbanks Exploration Company Goldstream Dredge No 8 NRHP Fairbanks, AK.JPG
Fairbanks Exploration Company Housing NRHP 505.JPG
Fairbanks Exploration Company Housing NRHP 523.JPG
Fairbanks Exploration Company Housing NRHP 505 (2).JPG
NAVIGATION
Objects used to measure, orient and cross distance.
Collection material is being prepared for this section.
ROADS & ROUTES
The physical networks connecting settlements and empires.
BALKANS ROMAN ROADS cropped.jpg
Ancient Roman road of Tall Aqibrin.jpg
Roman Road - geograph.org.uk - 1975019.jpg
Roman Roads in Yorkshire Map Gri 33125011105661 0103-4.jpg
Ancient Roman road in Le Monastere (2).jpg
Ancient Roman road in Le Monastere (1).jpg