- The Metal Ages is a term for the period of human civilization beginning around 6,000 years ago in which metallurgy rapidly advanced and human populations started using metals such as copper, tin, bronze and finally iron, to make tools and weapons. By heating and shaping metals in hot furnaces, people also learned to use precious metals such as gold and silver to make intricate jewellery.
- An official atlas of North Korea (cartographerstale.com)
What I bring you today is a real gem that I have been searching for a long time and have finally managed to get my hands on a copy1. It is a collection of 672 maps found in the Great Korean Encyclopaedia2, North Korea’s reference encyclopaedia. More specifically, it is an electronic edition published on CD in the first decade of the 2000s.