This Shockwave-enhanced site provides excellent maps which show the expansion of the Roman Empire, ancient trade routes, natural resources, and much more. A wonderful collection of worldwide historical maps from the PCL Map Collection of the General Libraries of The University of Texas at Austin. Images are scanned in and are often very large, but very impressive, files. Map Case Scanned images of maps from the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries. The scanned images are of superb quality.
Most maps are of cities in Europe and North America.
The thumbnail images take some time to load. Map Index Fifty Adobe Acrobat Reader-format and JPG maps of the ancient Mediterranean and Europe. The Yale Map Library has a nice collection of online historic maps from around the world. A nice collection of scanned maps from around the world. Click the thumbnail to view a larger version.