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

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 ...

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.

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...