If the geopolitical divisions of the modern world had existed when Stegosauruses roamed the earth, the world might have looked something like this map by Italian blogger Massimo Pietrobon.

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

He made it as far as the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan, and even crossed ... who adds that the Macedonian “redrew the map of the world” by force, where his father had always tried ...

Rungholt was a settlement in the then-Danish Duchy of Schleswig - modern-day Germany ... The storm that eventually wiped the town from the map for so long was so vast it shifted the coastline ...

Both maps reveal the great challenge the New World presented to mapmakers ... as well as is the coastline of modern-day Venezuela. It is the first map to name the Antilles, the archipelago ...