The Piri Reis World Map of 1513 was discovered in the Topkapı Palace Library in 1929. Piri Reis’s is a portolan-style world map created in a time when positioning recently discovered places was almost ...

The Piri Reis World Map of 1513 is one of the oldest post-Columbian world maps in existence. Fascinating and confusing cartographers for centuries, it may have actually discovered Antarctica long ...

They feature a “map of the month” (Martin Waldseemüller’s 1513 world map which omits the previously proposed name of “America”) and “maps in the news” ...