Some would call David Rumsey a cartophile, while others may put it more bluntly and say he’s obsessed. Over 30 years he’s personally accumulated over 150,000 maps and he's just donated them all to ...

A.D. 1498. The Discovery of America. An 1830 map from Edward Quin of London showing black clouds receding from the borders to indicate the expansion of geographical knowledge over time Stanford ...

The fourth season of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones kicked off this past week. 6.6 million people tuned into the premiere, making it the most watched single episode of an HBO show since the series ...

0000018f-8786-dcea-afcf-cfff02f10000 Three generations of the Cassini family worked on this national survey of France between 1750 and 1815. This detail shows the area around Grenoble, at the foot of ...

The maps, of course, depict a mistake: They show California as an island off the coast of North America, reflecting the beliefs of some explorers and cartographers from the 17th and 18th centuries.

TULARE — In the drought-ravaged Central Valley, scientists are using a new imaging technology to find ancient worlds of trapped water, hidden hundreds of feet underground. The Stanford University-led ...

When you visit the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University's Green Library, if you can, take the stairs. Yes, you'll have to spiral up three flights, but the wallpaper will give you plenty of ...