The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...
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 ...
Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...
The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...