Established in 1958, Carta, a privately held company, is Israel’s leading cartographer. From its inception, Carta has been supplying maps and mapping services to university presses & scholars, writers & book publishers, newspapers & magazines, private firms & corporations, institutions & foundations, religious groups & charitable organizations, government offices & agencies.
With biblical maps a favorite, Carta’s maps and atlases provide answers for every conceivable need: school atlases; country and city maps; tourist guides; historical, political and other thematic maps; Print, CD-ROM and Internet, to mention only a few.
Among Carta’s trail-blazing efforts was the creation of the monumental 12-volume Historical Atlas of Israel and the Jewish People, from biblical times to the present. Atlases of the Middle East; Russia and the independent Republics; South America, and others followed. Carta also published the official Atlas of Israel with the Government Survey of Israel, and prepared the English edition, co-published with Macmillan, New York. Outstanding, among others, is The Carta Bible Atlas (formerly The Macmillan Bible Atlas), translated into ten languages.
Recently Carta published the highly acclaimed The Sacred Bridge: Carta’s Atlas of the Biblical World by Anson F. Rainey and R. Steven Notley; Greatness Grace & Glory: Carta’s Atlas of Biblical Biography by Paul H. Wright, a devout work based on the life and deeds of the Bible’s most prominent people; and three archaeological field guides – Qumran, Masada and Ein Gedi – by noted scholar Hanan Eshel. Carta has its own distribution network in North America and is well connected with major publishers worldwide.
However, cartography and maps constitute only part of its publishing program. Carta’s other areas of conventional publishing include encyclopedic works on various subjects. Outstanding among them, the unique, 4-volume The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, in both English and Hebrew, Carta’s one-volume General Encyclopedia, specialized dictionaries, epigraphy, paleography and other learning materials, and, to a growing extent, books, maps and guides for the growing field of leisure activities.