The rise of smart phones and GPs means maps are now always a tap away - but Google Maps' question for perfection leaves something to be desired: beauty.
Check out these beautiful - if sometimes geographically challenged – old maps of the Middle East.
1. Al-Idrisi (1154)
2. J. Hondius, Jr. (1630)
3. Piri Reis (1513)
4. Sebastian Münster (1488-1552)
5. Sebastian Münster (1488-1552)
6. Unknown (1475)
7. Mercator, Gerhard (1607)
8. Flaminus (1681)
9. Visscher (1657)
10. Abraham Ortelius (1572)
11. Ortelius, Hondius (1595)
