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

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

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 ...

Hereford Cathedral is home to the Mappa Mundi - which is seen as one of the world’s greatest medieval treasures. Measuring 1.59 x 1.34 metres (5ft 2ins by 4ft 4ins), the map is constructed on a ...

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.

Around 1450, the Venetian government commissioned a monk named Fra Mauro to make a mappa mundi, a map of the world.His map is a circle nearly 7 feet in diameter, crammed with illustrations and ...

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