Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

While there are thankfully quite a few historic world maps still knocking around today, the Mappa Mundi kept in Hereford ...

From the centre of the world to the lower surface of the heavens of the Moon there are 107,936 miles," and so on, he writes in the top left corner of the Mappa Mundi.

The map is listed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register and described as ‘the only complete example of a large medieval world map intended for public display’. In many ways, it serves as ...

Faith XLVII cuts apart old maps, discontinued currency, and national flags, sewing them into patterned tapestries.

But in the case of the multimillion-dollar Sunderland Collection, the majority of its 130 maps, atlases, globes and more came online last month as Oculi Mundi (the Eyes of the World).

F or our third annual list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places, we turned the cover into an illustrative world map by a London-based mapmaker Katherine Baxter.. Baxter spent four weeks producing ...

Video gaming as a whole lacks a shared landscape, but that didn’t stop iam8bit from creating the Videogames World Map, a detailed illustration that includes nearly 100 points of interest from a ...

Scientists have unlocked the secrets of the world’s oldest map - a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi - which is believed to show the location of 'Noah’s Ark'.

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size (2.4m x 2.4m ...

It also has one of the only surviving copies of the 1217 Magna Carta. Its most impressive artefact, however, is the Mappa Mundi: one of the oldest, largest and most curious medieval maps in the world.