World maps became increasingly accurate ... Why bother? These are old and out of date; who cares? Now when people visit his collection at Stanford they “get it right away.

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

In a world where satellite imaging and digital cartography rule, the idea of a 5,000-year-old map redrawing our historical borders is irresistible. The buzz around the alleged Egyptian map opens ...