The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...
The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...
No doubting the scholarly rigour of this highly visual production, which reflects maps’ many distinctive styles and ...
Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.
The Battle of Ipsus reshaped the empire of Alexander the Great, as rival successors clashed in a fight that ended hopes of ...
Stealing artwork is far from being white-collar and more about carelessness, violence, and disgruntled employees. Spain is one of the hardest-hit countries, although the Louvre holds the most famous ...
In this series of unique timepieces, the very best of watchmaking and artistic savoir-faire reign supreme.
The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.
Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...
Underwater archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat, which appears in art and writing but has never ...
For decades, the seabed off the coast of Egypt has been scanned to digitally map the remnants of one of the seven wonders of the world for its resurrection.
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