45 Times People Found Rare and Interesting Things in Their Houses

Old maps are truly fascinating. Looking at vintage maps as a modern viewer lets you see how much the world has changed. Borders disappear, countries converge, and maps change. Someone found this old-world atlas in their grandparent’s basement. Miraculously, it’s 125 years old. One look at this map and its age is very obvious.

The world has changed a lot over the last 25 years. Can you imagine how different things were 125 years ago? At the turn of the century, around 1900, plenty of parts of the world were still under colonial rule. This old map has quite a lot of pink, indicating that the British Empire still had a lot of political influence all over the world.