A medieval map that showed part of North America decades before Columbus may be real, one expert says. Cartographer Rene Larsen of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts told an international ...

In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably ...

Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world. Located near the Welsh border on the River Wye, ...

Who is the richest person to ever have lived? Put down that Forbes Magazine — it's not Jeff Bezos. The real answer is in the pages of a Medieval manuscript, The Catalan Atlas. Centered on a page of ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across ...

Doubts crept in around Greenland, which looked so good it was frankly suspicious, and questions soon spread all over the map: about the wormholes, the handwriting and, most important, the weirdly ...

This is how Mars would have been depicted if Medieval cartographer had made the journey to the red planet. The hand drawn map was created by Eleanor Lutz, a Seattle-based science illustrator who runs ...

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