Travel Through Time with Historic Maps

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This summer, travel the world with the David Rumsey Map Collection, a dazzling archive of over 200,000 historical maps hosted by Stanford University Libraries. Spanning from 1550 to today, the collection takes you from 18th-century Paris to vanished empires and utopian islands. Each map is a portal into how people once viewed the world. Browse randomly or search precisely—every click becomes a journey through time, space, and human imagination.

Start exploring at davidrumsey.com and let curiosity chart your course.