Don't miss this special issue of Le Point: "Ces voyages qui ont changé le monde".
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An anchor, suspected to be a lost anchor of the HMS Chatham, one of George Vancouver's ships, has been recently recovered.
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Odyssey Marine Exploration started to recover more than 13,500 gold and silver coins, from the SS Central America shipwreck.
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The Northwest Coast of North America was the last part of the continent to be explored by Europeans. This book tells the story of these explorers.
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Discovered in 1996 on the gulf coast of Texas, after having been submerged for more than 300 years, La Belle shipwreck is the story about the last expedition of 17th century French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
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Here is a world map showing the routes and voyages of early explorers (1340-1600).
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Marginalia in cARTography examines the imagery displayed in the margins of maps, from the 13th to the 20th century.
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Could you imagine that we can see corrections on copper plates or wood blocks of early 16th century maps and discover which changes were made from the time they were first printed to later printings?
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Imagine more than 100 maps, atlases and globes, in a major cartography exhibition at the National Library of Australia. We are sharing 6 fascinating videos made about the exhibit and its maps.
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An exhibition reminds us that, at the time of empires, maps were more than just tools for the explorers to find their way.
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