The world’s oldest known geological map is a nine-foot-long papyrus from the Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina, home to the New Kingdom craftsmen who worked in the Valley of the Kings. Created by ...

WOODEN INUIT MAPS. DATE: 1885. MATERIAL: Wood. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 inches by 2 inches (left), 8.5 inches by 1 inch (right). FOUND: Ammassalik, Greenland. In 1885, an Inuit hunter named Kunit traded a trio ...