This is San Borondón Island, whose name comes from the legend that a monk discovered it while searching for the 'Earthly ...

Kit Roberts ventures into the furthest reaches of The John Rylands Library as it celebrates its 125th birthday ...

In his 2024 paper published in Archaeological Discovery, Borisov highlighted the Hereford Mappa Mundi maps that show a circular world surrounded by a river labelled 'Oceanus' and at the very top ...

Artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon introduce The Map, their 'monumental textile sculpture' now on display at The Dock, Leitrim.

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ancient geography. Hailing from the venerable city of Abu Habba ...

While there are thankfully quite a few historic world maps still knocking around today, the Mappa Mundi kept in Hereford Cathedral is our top pick because it’s full of intricate details, large-scale ...

Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world.

It was a map of the world – a “mappa mundi” in Latin – but it was unlike any I had encountered before. Framed in gold and 2.4 metres in diameter, the… ...