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

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 ...

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

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

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.

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Many scholars today argue that the Israelites never really conquered Canaan. What does the evidence really show?

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 ...

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 ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the wrong way round – showing the Mediterranean to the East – but its inclusion set ...