Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the wrong way round—showing the Mediterranean to the East—but its inclusion set a ...

"Adoration of the Magi" (circa 1375-85), tempera on panel by Bartolo di Fredi (Courtesy of Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena) The Museum of Biblical Art in ...

From the famous maps of cartographer Heinrich Bünting‘s Itinerarium Sacra Scripturae (Travels According to the Scriptures), come these fascinating mashup of religion, fantasy and map-making. Described ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way of seeing the planet had to be learned, and a surprising teacher helped ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document ...

A map of the biblical land of Israel published by the official Israel Arabic account on X earlier this week has drawn condemnation from neighboring Jordan, which accused the Israeli government of ...