From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Bernard Knox, director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, is the author of many acclaimed books on classical literature and civilization, including "Backing Into the Future: The ...

The extraordinary reproduction of the map’s surface will be unveiled for the first time by Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama, and his ...

Hereford's Mappa Mundi contains more than 500 ink drawings including amazing 'evidence' for apparent locations of key biblical events A HISTORIC map which marks the supposed sites of religious events ...

WORCESTERSHIRE residents can get closer to the unique Mappa Mundi map at Hereford Cathedral than at any other time in its 700-year-old history. After a two year project, which involved consultations ...

Seven centuries ago, an artist made a perforation with a compass on a large piece of parchment. The pinprick formed the centre of his universe. Around it he drew the circular shape of a city, with ...

A husband and wife have produced what is claimed to be the first major modern recreation of the medieval Mappa Mundi, as part of an English Heritage project. Phil and Tamara Pleasant created the Mappa ...

In the 13th Century, some people made a world map, and it was rubbish. Were they bad at geography? Or is there an intriguing reason behind the map's odd shapes and images? The Map Men investigate.

Digital mapping has turned our world into one vast shop-front; it's time to map the Earth with more respect, says Professor Jerry Brotton. The Hereford 'Mappa Mundi', which appears in Jerry Brotton's ...