Today, many scholars, including medieval art historian Marcia Kupfer ... although to include such references on a map of the world was quite rare. Today, the map’s makers remain unknown ...

A reproduction of the Atlas is on display in a new exhibit, which opened Jan. 26 at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern ... of Africa in the Medieval world, the continent is often seen as ...

Scholars have discovered part of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’s long-lost star catalogue of the—believed to be the first map of the ... Aratus Latinus, a medieval Latin manuscript ...

Cartographers used the beastly art to illustrate mysterious ... charts the origin of sea monsters from "mappa mundi," medieval European maps of the world; nautical maps; and Ptolemy's Geography ...

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. Almost twice as large as the famous ...

Today, many scholars, including medieval art historian Marcia Kupfer ... although to include such references on a map of the world was quite rare. Today, the map’s makers remain unknown ...

A reproduction of the Atlas is on display in a new exhibit, which opened Jan. 26 at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern ... of Africa in the Medieval world, the continent is often seen as ...