Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

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 ...

The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College ...

Chart from 500 years ago, reflected European ignorance of Holy Land, with later iterations improving; division into territories of 12 Israelite tribes set stage for international borders ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago, in 1525. It still influences how we think ...

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 ...

That it was the Jewish people’s sacred texts—and ethical monotheism itself—that inspired Western civilization is lost on them ...

A new study mapped ancient quarries in Jerusalem, offering rare insight into historic stonework hidden beneath the modern ...