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 ...

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 ...

A historic map that marks the supposed sites of religious events is still being decoded nearly 1,000 years after it was made. The Mappa Mundi, in Hereford Cathedral in England, contains more than 500 ...

A couple from Worcester has re-created the famous Hereford Mappa Mundi for Dover Castle... A husband and wife team from Worcester has just completed a 12th century Mappa Mundi - or map of the world - ...

The extraordinary reproduction of the map’s surface will be unveiled for the first time by Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama, and his ...

A HISTORIC map which marks the supposed sites of religious events is still being decoded - nearly 1,000 years after it was made. The Mappa Mundi, in Hereford Cathedral, contains more than 500 ink ...

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, ...

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 ...

Hereford's Mappa Mundi contains more than 500 ink drawings including amazing 'evidence' for apparent locations of key biblical events A HISTORIC map which marks the supposed sites of religious events ...