
Tragic Lost Maps No. 3: The Peutinger Map
Astonishing Road Map of the Roman Empire, copied in the twelfth century from the fourth century version, and extending from Portugal to China!
Useful linksĀ
Marco Ramerini’s excellent colonial history website
Author, historian, voyager; my mate Ian Burnet
Want to tour the Spice Islands by boat?
Moleiro Antique map & atlas facsimiles
The UK Ordnance Society for artillery
The Hakuyt Society; a broad series of historic accounts

Astonishing Road Map of the Roman Empire, copied in the twelfth century from the fourth century version, and extending from Portugal to China!

Lists of Wonders of the World go back a very long time, all the way to the era of Herodotus

Adding steel plate to major warships to stop shells penetrating began in 1860 and carried on until the Second World

As punishment for piracy in Malacca Strait a thousand years ago, a Hindu emperor stages an impressive raid from India to Sumatra.