Click to view the full map. In medieval times, the idea that flying, fire-spitting dragons existed was considered entirely plausible. The world was immense and unknown. Many people believed that a sea ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

A couple from Worcester has re-created the famous Hereford Mappa Mundi for Dover Castle... A husband and wife team from Worcester has just completed a 12th century Mappa Mundi - or map of the world - ...

A historic map that marks the supposed sites of religious events is still being decoded nearly 1,000 years after it was made. The Mappa Mundi, in Hereford Cathedral in England, contains more than 500 ...

The extraordinary reproduction of the map’s surface will be unveiled for the first time by Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama, and his ...

A HISTORIC map which marks the supposed sites of religious events is still being decoded - nearly 1,000 years after it was made. The Mappa Mundi, in Hereford Cathedral, contains more than 500 ink ...

A husband and wife have produced what is claimed to be the first major modern recreation of the medieval Mappa Mundi, as part of an English Heritage project. Phil and Tamara Pleasant created the Mappa ...

Bernard Knox, director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, is the author of many acclaimed books on classical literature and civilization, including "Backing Into the Future: The ...

Hereford's Mappa Mundi contains more than 500 ink drawings including amazing 'evidence' for apparent locations of key biblical events A HISTORIC map which marks the supposed sites of religious events ...