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Tracing the Imagined and the Known: Mythical Maps and the

-Ananya Sinha Starting with the first civilizations and continuing through the era of satellite photographs, maps have recorded much more than land topography they have mapped the hopes, anxieties, and imaginations of humanity. Even before the development of map-making as a scientific art, individuals mapped the world in terms of myth, legend, and religious belief. […]Read More