Europe's Oldest Map. Posted: August 18, 2024 | Last updated: August 18, 2024. A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe ...

Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is ...

Here’s a map showing a longer period of time, from 1 A.D. to 2000 A.D., made using maps from Euratlas. At the beginning of the common era, Europe was dominated by the Roman Empire.

The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, ... This stunning geological map of Europe was produced in 1875 by Andre Dumont, a Belgian scientist and mapmaker.