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 ...

About Hereford Mappa Mundi. The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, ...

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 ...

The Mappa Mundi attempts to pin down locations of the unattainable and the grotesque.Within the 11th-century walls of the Hereford Cathedral hangs a curious cacophony of images inscribed upon a large ...

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From January 19 to May 5, 2019, UCCA presents Qiu Zhijie: Mappa Mundi, the first exhibition after a complete architectural renovation of UCCA’s Main Hall designed by OMA, and the most comprehensive ...

In the 13th Century, some people made a world map, and it was rubbish. Were they bad at geography? Or is there an intriguing reason behind the map's odd shapes and images? The Map Men investigate.

Seven centuries ago, an artist made a perforation with a compass on a large piece of parchment. The pinprick formed the centre of his universe. Around it he drew the circular shape of a city, with ...