► Part One: Mapping the Skies: Prehistory-1515 CE
- Lascaux, France: Pleiades, c. 17,000 BCE
- Polynesian Constellations, 300 BCE–1200 CE: A Closer Look
- African Star Lore
- The Emu, Australia
- The Origin of the Zodiac, Ancient Mesopotamia: 1130 BCE
- Greek Constellations and Arabic Stars: The Almagest (150 CE) and Arabic Star Lists (1065 CE)
- First Maps of the Greek Constellations, Persia, 964 CE
- Hebrew Zodiac, 1361 CE
- Dunhuang Star Map (Tang Dynasty), 618-907 CE
- Chinese Constellations (Song Dynasty), 1193 CE
- From Sky to Land: Directions in China, 3000 BCE-Present
- Albrecht Durer, Map of the Constellations, 1515 CE
► Part Two: Rivers and Roads
- Ancient Mesopotamia: The Town of Nippur, c. 2300 BCE
- Map of the Route to Paradise, Egypt, 1985-1795 BCE
- Road Map to the Egyptian Quarries, 1150 BCE
- Rivers and Roads: the Oldest Map in China, c. 239 BCE
- Rome Mapped in Marble The Severan Marbles, 203-211 CE
- All Roads Lead to Rome: The Peutinger Table, c. 350-400 CE
- River Maps: The Indus River, c.1065 CE
- Cairo to Constantinople: A Nautical Route Along the Mediterranean, c.1065
- Crusader Jerusalem, c.1100 CE
- Gough Map of Britain: Rivers and Roads, c. 1360 CE
► Part Three: Mapping the World, 600 BCE – c. 1450 CE
- Babylonian World Map, 600 BCE
- Medieval Christian T-O Map, c. 600 CE
- World Climate Map, c. Fifth Century CE
- Medieval Islamic Map of the World, c. 1300 CE
- First Turkish Map of Central Asia c. 1072 CE
- Hereford Mappamundi, 1300 CE
- Idrisi’s Circular Map of the World c. 1165 CE
- Earliest Known Ptolemaic Map of the World, c.1300 CE
- Fra Mauro’s Map of the World, 1448-1459 CE
- Buddhist World Map from Japan 1710 CE
- Jain World Map
► Part Four: An Expanding World, 1300 CE- 1570
- Catalan World Map, 1375
- Arabic Portolan, c. 1300
- Chart of the Mediterranean, Western Europe, and Northwestern Africa 1511
- Which Way is North: An Introduction to the History of Directions in the West
- Map of the Known World by Martellus c. 1490
- First Map of America: The Cantino Map, 1502
- Latitude and Longitude: The Keys to Explaining the World
- Waldseemuller’s Map of the World, 1507
- The Indian Ocean mapped by Jorge Reinel
- A Heart-Shaped Map
- Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1519-1522
- Abraham Ortelius, The Atlas, 1570, Part A
- Abraham Ortelius, The Atlas, 1570 Part B
- Mercator’s World Map, 1569
► Part Five: Worlds Colliding, c. 1550-1800
- Native Towns of Spanish Mexico, 1570
- Guaman Poma, Mappamundi as Satire, 1615
- Northeast Coast of North America, 1607
- East and Southeast Asia, 1625
- Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, 1764
- Tupaia’s Map of Tahiti for Captain Cook, 1769
- North American Buckskin Map, 1774-1775
- Powder Horn Maps, 1750s-1780s
- Slaves on the Gold Coast of Africa, 1729
- The Niger River Described by a Fulani Ruler, 1824
- The Cedid Atlas, 1803
- Napoleon’s Advance and Retreat from Moscow, 1812-1813
► Part Six: Land Surveys, c. 800 CE-1900
- Japan: The First Rice Field Surveys, Eighth Century CE
- Chinese County Maps: Dinghai County, 1226 CE
- Elizabethan Tapestry Map, 1580
- The Land That Windmills Made: A Dutch Polder Map, 1712
- Paris on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1789
- Ordnance Survey Origins: Scotland’s Loch Ness, 1747-1755
- Thai Map, c. 1782
- The Vale of Kashmir, 1836
- The Eight Provinces of Korea, ca. 1850
- Japan: Gyoki Map on a Porcelain Plate, c. 1830
- Mongolian Land Survey, 1892
► Part Seven: Mapping the Natural World, 1800-2010
- Bali: Rivers and Temples, 1935
- The Great Trigonometric Survey of India, 1802-1866
- Alexander Humboldt’s Map of Plants on Chimborazo, 1802
- Geological Map of Southwestern England, 1815
- 1851 Whale Chart
- Monsoon and Trade Wind Chart of the Indian Ocean, 1864
- Marshall Islands Stick Map, 1870s
- Crown Prince Islands in Disko Bay, Greenland, 1926
- Luba Mapping Device, Congo 1930s
- The Modern Zodiac, 1933
- Maps into Art: Aboriginal Map, 1987
- Map of the Ocean Floor, 1977
- Map of Antarctica, 2004
- Coastal Flooding in West Africa: Mapping the Future
► Part Eight: Empires, Wars, Decolonization, 1884-1999
- Cape to Cairo: The Scramble for Africa, 1884-1885
- Territorial Claims in Central and Eastern Europe Prior to World War I
- 1916 Trench Warfare Artillery Map, Flanders
- Soviet Georgia, from the First Russian Atlas, 1937-1939
- Japanese Aviation Map of Korea, 1933
- Royal Air Force Map for Bombing Northern Germany, 1943
- World War II Silk Escape Map
- Post-War New World Map, 1942
- Black Homeland Consolidation Proposals for South Africa, 1973
- Peoples and Nations of the Former Soviet Union, 1991
- Decolonization in Africa, 1960-1975
► Part Nine: Mapping Transportation and Communication Networks, 1885-2006