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 ...

Researchers say that a 500-year-old map depicting the Holy Land was printed the wrong way round - yet it has continued to ...

For many Christians today, the Bible is one of those very few permanencies in the world. It connects them to a world ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...