This is San Borondón Island, whose name comes from the legend that a monk discovered it while searching for the 'Earthly ...

You get Mappa Mundi - a tabletop RPG with no combat, lots of heart, and the distinct sense you’ve just enrolled in an eco-therapy programme run by David Attenborough and a druid with a PhD. This is ...

Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world.

Mappa Mundi A major performance from Alun Armstrong goes so far as to ennoble "Mappa Mundi," a decent enough but hardly inspired piece that is invigorated no end by its leading man. Nearly two ...

While there are thankfully quite a few historic world maps still knocking around today, the Mappa Mundi kept in Hereford Cathedral is our top pick because it’s full of intricate details, large-scale ...

Our word “map” came into English (probably through French) from the Latin phrase mappa mundi, map of the world. But mappa really means table-napkin; a map is the world inscribed on a napkin ...

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 ...

In 1460, a Venetian monk illustrated an epic-scale ‘mappa mundi’ that provided the most accurate depiction of the world at the time.

Hereford Cathedral said its 700-year-old Mappa Mundi, the largest such map in existence, was made in Hereford, not Lincoln as previously thought.

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.