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 ...

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 ...

Oculi Mundi, a new online collection, shares the artistry of early creators. By Susanne Fowler Reporting from London Centuries before global positioning systems and computer-aided design software, ...

WORCESTERSHIRE residents can get closer to the unique Mappa Mundi map at Hereford Cathedral than at any other time in its 700-year-old history. After a two year project, which involved consultations ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

The world's oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an ark that closely mirrors the Biblical story of Noah's ark. The map was created ...