Old Map of Russia and Tartary, 1584 by Ortelius - Rare Chart of Moscow, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan herman moll landmarks and other university buildings

landmarks and other university buildings

But today's numbered avenues didn't exist back then - instead

The route mostly covers the counties of Berkshire

This old map of "the Antarctic Regions" was originally published in Edward Stanford's 1904 world atlas - one of the finest world atlases ever created

it's because it was built for the Festival of Britain

Old Map of Russia and Tartary, 1584 by Ortelius - Rare Chart of Moscow, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan herman moll landmarks and other university buildingsThis is a very fine example of one of the first printed maps of Russia and parts of Tartary (sometimes known as Tartaria) what the Europeans called the vast Central Asian land east of the Caspian Sea. It was published by Dutch mapmaker Abraham Ortelius in his 1584 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum the most important collection of world maps of the 16th century. This map was originally handcoloured almost exactly 450 years ago and has been