show not only the rivers, as many maps do, but also the massive, sprawling basins that feed them. You can see maps for the U.S., Europe, Africa and South America in the gallery above. (Check out ...

According to Delaney, European mapping of Africa took place over a period of 400 ... which were believed to be the source of the Nile River and were first depicted on ancient maps by the Greek ...

Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley receives funding from Welsh European Funding Office ... related particularly to maps since a map of southern Africa’s rivers that one of us, Sukhmani, created ...

Why rivers? “Because they are amazing,” Szucs tells CNN. “I mean, look at my US river map – I created the design, the colors, the width of the lines. But I did not draw any of the lines.” ...

The Congo River was crucial to early European exploration in the late 15th century and inspired literary works like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Today, it plays a big role in Africa’s ...