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Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

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Gladys West, right, developed the mathematical models behind GPS. U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons Although women have always been ...

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The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.