Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

Hong Kong’s election chief has urged the public to vote in Sunday’s legislative election after some called for it to be postponed in the wake of the city’s deadliest fire ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Pope Leo XIV has shared his thoughts during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and put the rest in God’s hands. Speaking to the ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

Sarah Ferguson is expected to move into a granny annexe on a multi-million-pound property in Oxfordshire despite initial ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

Chart from 500 years ago, reflected European ignorance of Holy Land, with later iterations improving; division into territories of 12 Israelite tribes set stage for international borders ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago, in 1525. It still influences how we think ...