Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...
According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...
Saudi Arabia’s AlUla is preparing to open new chapters in the history of the ancient city of Dadan, the former capital of the ...
In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...
Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...
Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...
What in the world was happening in the 14th century? Violence, uprisings, power struggles, wars, climate change, an epidemic, extensive trade networks – a new world order was emerging, one that ...
Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...
A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...
The Roman Empire might have been bigger than we first thought. The uncovering of a hidden road network demonstrates the ...
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 ...