We collected 25 rare antique maps of the world to give you an ancient tour that shows just how far we've come. Sparta 400s B.C. Using ancient text, J.D. Barbie du Bocage created this map in 1817 ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.