Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi(mostre.museogalileo.it)

130 points by gadtfly 2 years ago | 23 comments

USGS Historical Topographic Maps(esri.com)

217 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 42 comments

Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language(languageworldmap.com)

32 points by florianwueest 3 years ago | 65 comments

1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”(historyofinformation.com)

66 points by thomassmith65 1 year ago | 58 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history(waratlas.org)

177 points by NaOH 3 months ago | 68 comments

Map of the world's great castles and fortresses(thecastlemap.com)

291 points by marklit 3 months ago | 182 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)(iosiflazaridis.github.io)

127 points by endorphine 23 hours ago | 49 comments

An interactive map and dataset of all 1,709 named land and sea battles fought by the Romans from 753 BCE to 1475 CE, with opponents, results and records.

Visualizing World War II(nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)

410 points by gaws 1 year ago | 85 comments

A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally(globalsolaratlas.info)

68 points by stratts 20 days ago | 49 comments

Global Solar Atlas is an interactive web map showing solar resource and photovoltaic power potential for locations worldwide.

Map of GitHub(github.com)

651 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.

This map is not upside down(maps.com)

341 points by aagha 1 year ago | 489 comments

Maps.com article by Joshua Stevens about a south-up world map designed by cartographer Robert Simmon that challenges the north-up convention.

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia(cambridge.org)

51 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 33 comments

Open-access article in the Cambridge journal Iraq examining the role of religion in scribal education in first millennium BCE Babylonia.