The lost city of Imet rises from the Nile Delta, with 2,500-year-old mud houses that stood like skyscrapers in ancient Egypt.

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 ...

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

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

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

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred ...

Whether or not you believe in the Bible, it’s undeniable that it affects you today. That’s true even for the most ardent ...

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

During the Gaza war, Israel raced to redistrict land in the occupied West Bank, drastically changing the map. Palestinians say annexation is underway, though Israel denies it.

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

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 ...

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 ...