A symposium marking the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first world map by renowned Ottoman sailor and cartographer Piri Reis began on Monday in Ankara. Piri Reis produced the oldest known ...

Turkish Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Nihat Ergun attended the reception Thursday held to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Piri Reis map compiled in the year 1513. "Piri Reis served ...

In 1929, a map was found rolled up on a dusty shelf in a library at the Topkapi Palace in Constantinople (present day Istanbul), Turkey. It dates back to 1513. This map, which is now well-known as the ...

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The mystery of ice-free Antarctica has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts alike, with ancient maps suggesting a time when the continent was free of ice. These maps, such as the Piri Reis map, have ...

No authentic map of Columbus was known until Prof. P. Kahle in 1929 found among a number of old charts in the Seraglio at Istanbul a coloured Turkish map of the Atlantic with its islands and coasts.

At the outset of Conwell's middling 10th Tony Boudreaux mystery (after 2008's The Crystal Skull Murders), San Antonio resident Ted Odom hires the Austin, Tex., PI to track down a valuable map Odom's ...