Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Extraction shooters are a video-game genre that’s becoming increasingly popular among players. Their unusual gameplay ...

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

Newcastle Museum will delve into one the city's most intriguing pieces of coastal history as part of a new exhibition ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A River Runs Between Us, a 400-page illustrated book by co-author partners Edwards and Elaine Weeks, draws on more than 1,200 ...