SCAtoday.net - Cartography

Purloined map returned to Spain

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:17:12 -0500

A rare 15th century Ptolemy world view map stolen in 2007 from the National library of Spain has been discovered in a Sydney, Australia art gallery and returned to Spain.

Pennsic included in Google Maps

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:14:30 -0500

Jeff Morton reports that the Pennsic War has been captured by the cartographers of Google Satellite Maps.

North Wales Celtic "Land of the Dead?"

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:36:41 -0500

A 19th century map may be the key to a Celtic mystery: the location of the legendary Land of the Dead. According to the map, it may be in the Ruabon and Halkyn Mountains in North Wales.

Medieval Mappa honoured by UNESCO

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:19:34 -0500

A famous 13th century map of the world has been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register.

Estrella War XXIV Interactive Event Map/Camping Map Page

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:12:37 -0500

The Event Coordinators for Estrella War XXIV (Feb 12-18, 2008) are pleased to announce that a new "Event Site Maps" page has been added to the website.

Tabula Peutingeriana, last surviving roadmap of Roman roads

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:24:45 -0500

Oriented east to west instead of north to south, the Tabula Peutingeriana, a seven-meter-long parchment scroll, records the network of roads of the late Roman Empire. From Spain to India, the map elongates the continents and reduces the Mediterranean Sea to a squiggle, but is the earliest known map of Roman roads.

Tapestry map shows Midlands of Shakespeare's time

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:12:17 -0500

A huge (4 feet x 6 feet, or 122 x 183 cm) 16th century tapestry map has returned to Oxford's Bodleian Library where it will be placed on display. The map was one of four such maps and was long thought to be lost. The Bodleian now owns three with the fourth in the Warwickshire Museum.

FBI Returns Stolen Maps to Spain

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:36:19 -0500

Earlier this year, a man named Cesar Gomez Rivero from Uruguay allegedly walked into the Biblioteca Nacional de España and swiped a series of maps from a 15th century edition of Geographia (one of four major treatises of Ptolemy, the Greek scholar who lived in Roman Egypt during the second century).

Roaming through Leicester

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:38:25 -0400

The city of Leicester in England offers an interactive map that allows visitors to explore different aspects of the historical city by clicking on landmarks on the map. The map includes access to the Roman Centre, Medieval Centre, Castle and Newark Liberty and the Modern Centre.

Ancient Roman map available online

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:11:40 -0400

The Peutingerian Map, thought to be the oldest surviving road map in the world, is now available for study on the Internet through collaboration between the Austrian National Library and Christos Nüssli of Euratlas.com.

Hailes Abbey map discovered

Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:49:58 -0400

Hailes Abbey, in England's Cotswolds, lies in ruins a victim of Henry VIII's dissolution program. Now the discovery of an Elizabethan map may shed new light on what the 12th century church looked like.

John Smith, mapmaker

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:21 -0400

Among his many talents, explorer and early Jamestown resident Captain John Smith could count mapmaking. A map created by Smith in 1608 of the Chesapeake Bay river system has been compared recently with modern maps and found to have a "stunning level of accuracy."

Chinese historical maps online

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:33:41 -0400

Liu Xiao Mei Furen shares the discovery of online versions of several Chinese maps including one which shows the locations of places discussed in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

SCA Google Earth

Wed, 30 May 2007 13:28:59 -0400

SCA blogger Anachronista reports on the undertaking of a monumental task by Diarmuid Ceolmhor: mapping the Known World on Google Earth.

Exhibit on New World maps now on display at the Chrysler

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:08:17 -0400

"Envisioning Virginia 1587-1784: Early Maps of the New World" will be on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia, through August 12.