Anyone who has ever wondered what their neck of the woods looked like when even extinct species like dinosaurs roamed the Earth can get a peek with this map.

Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National Geographic. Humans have walked the Earth for 190,000 years, a mere blip in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.

In the British Museum in London collections, there is an extraordinary artifact known as Imago Mundi, or the "Babylonian Map of the World." Considered the oldest in the world, it was created ...